Tech Staffing firm fined 5M for H-1B VISA staffing

[Robert Oak]

The Labor Department has ordered a Southfield,
Michigan, firm that places computer professionals
at locations throughout the United States to pay
$4,500,503 in back wages to 232 non-immigrant
computer professionals and $1,222,000 in fines
for immigration-law violations the department
says it found during an investigation.

http://hr2.blr.com/Article.cfm/Nav/5.0.0.0.32334

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The H-1B Visa allows foreign workers into the US, by controlled and sponsored by corporations, often paid at 3rd world economic rates, to replace American counterparts. The VISA originally
was to bring in highly specialized skills (say PhDs and so on) into the US when no US citizen could be located. High tech industry now abuses
this system to obtain cheaper high tech labor and replace Americans.
This is the 1st company to be fined that I am aware of for any H-1B VISA abuse.

[EVDebs]

1. It's about time, and I would hope Lou Dobb's recommendations

on FINALLY going after the corporations, and Labor Dept. officials who approved the 'attestations' allowing visa frauds to continue unabated, will be carried out.

National security is endangered in all of this and DOL has much to answer for.