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BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Senator John Cornyn thinks business needs some emergency relief. Senators Chuck Hagel, Judd Gregg, Joe Lieberman agree. Hence, Senate bill 2839 or "The Global Competitiveness Act of 2008." It doesn't quite do what Microsoft's Bill Gates wants to see done with the H-1B visa program, a foreign guest worker program for skilled workers.

BILL GATES, MICROSOFT CHAIRMAN: Even though it may not be realistic, I don't think there should be any limit. [Get that? No limit on Visas issued to fill jobs that Americans can fill ?-DOOG]

TUCKER: But it would expand the cap by 77 percent, from 65,000 to 115,000 starting next year. The bill is being offered, Cornyn says, because American high-tech companies have thousands of unfilled positions. Yet studies done by the Urban Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Duke's Frat School of Engineering all came to a similar conclusion. There is no shortage of skilled American workers.

VIVIK WADHWA, DUKE UNIVERSITY: So far, I've seen no research study which showed that there was a shortage of engineers in the USA. There's a lot of anecdotal evidence, maybe some local shortages, but there's no shortage that I know of.

PRIYANKA JOSHI, WASHTECH: I get e-mails from all over the country with people who are very well educated, who have American education and they have no jobs at all.

TUCKER: There is currently no mention of emergency relief for American workers, even though the phrase "emergency relief" seems to be the new trend in visa talk in Washington, D.C.

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DOBBS: This is, to me, shocking. Senator Cornyn,........There is no possible explanation that this sponsorship is anything more than a reflexive, acquiescence to the demands of corporate lobbyists, putting intense pressure on Lieberman and Cornyn and all the other senators involved.

DOBBS: Well, let's just remind our viewers of something. What percentage of these visas are actually high skilled workers coming in to this country?

TUCKER: The vast majority of the visas, I don't remember the exact percentage, Lou, go to the low-end of the pay scale.

DobbsAnd let's remind our audience of one other thing,..............................What percentage of the workers that are brought in here under h1b visas at the top? What percentage of those top corporations bringing those folks in are Indian companies based in this country and they're bringing in low-skilled workers for the specific purpose of outsourcing American jobs in this country to an Indian company here in this country.

TUCKER: As unbelievable as this number is, Lou, 80 percent. 8 of the top 10 are Indian companies either based in India or based here.

This is immoral, probably anti-Constitutional putting of Americans out of their estate, and simply another scam to replace Capitalism with Syndicalism -- an unholy mis-Alliance of Big Business and the Government, which despite its flagrantly bogus title, is a Bill to replace American Workers with foreign imports. the next Logical step for this Syndicate is to DEPORT Americans and replace them with Foreigners --who being under Visa Indenture that would deport themselves if they fell out of favor (or asked for a raise), won't vote against the people who bought them here and keep them here.

If this seems Preposterous, it is only because this Bill is Preposterous.

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