if your job has been outsourced or you have been displaced by cheap foreign labor

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There is an urgent need for Comprehensive Visa reform in this country. It is time to stop large corporations from discriminating against Americans and permanent residents to save money by hiring guest workers on H-1B Visas at a lower wage than existing workers.

Senate Bill 887, introduced by Senator Richard Durbin, is a fine step toward solving these problems. This bill would require employers to make a good faith effort to hire Americans first, stop the practice of “H-1B Only” ads for potential employees, prevent H-1B and L-1 workers from exceeding 50% of an employer’s labor force, and provide for auditing and accountability for all companies who participate in the H-1B program. I support this legislation and hope that it is a part of any comprehensive immigration reform package.

At a time when unemployment is soaring and our nation is facing the worst recession in decades, we must pass legislation like this to ensure that Americans have a chance to compete for American jobs, so that employers don’t simply outsource on our own soil.

I hope you will join me in this campaign, so that I can work to bring common sense solutions like this to the United States Congress.

Sincerely,

Anthony Woods