In a message dated 7/10/07 3:53:01 P.M. Central Daylight Time, News@JobDestruction.info writes:
<<<<< JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER No. 1726 -- 7/10/2007 >>>>>
Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton has been very busy lately
kowtowing to Indian corporatists. Recently Clinton gave a speech to the
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) 2007 Global Alumni Conference -- Santa
Clara, California, July 6, 2007. Hillary Clinton reassured the Indian
lobbyists and American corporations that she supports an expanded H-1B visa
program.
Clinton probably expected her perfidy to be known only to insiders but the
story was blown wide open by Lou Dobbs, who to my knowledge is the only
media person who is covering this story.
Several Lou Dobbs shows are now available on Youtube and there are three
video clips of Clinton at the IIT conference. Don't watch these on a full
stomach!
Transcripts of the July 9th Dobbs shows are below, but you will have to
watch the IIT clips since no transcript is available.
It's worth noting in the panel discussion of "Lou Dobbs -- Hillary's
Hypocrisy: Part 2", Robert Zimmerman, a Democratic strategist, tried to
spin the ugly truth about Clinton's sellout to Indian corporatists. Lou
Dobbs didn't let him get away with it. All three of the panelists tried to
avoid talking about H-1B but Dobbs kept bringing it back up. Except for
Zimmerman who immediately tried to defend Clinton, these guys did
everything they can to change the subject. Kudos for Dobbs for doggedly
sticking to the H-1B issue!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi_c9ep9uKI
Lou Dobbs -- Hillary's Hypocrisy: Part 1 (04:12)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvD2j3nG-0M
Lou Dobbs -- Hillary's Hypocrisy: Part 2 (06:47)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAP3Poxue64
Video clip from conference,
Hillary Clinton -- IIT grads are "incredibly diverse" Part 1 (00:34)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkuIObiJGZQ
Video clip from conference,
Hillary Clinton -- IIT grads are "incredibly diverse" Part 2 (00:07)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOW0cUaGWZU
Video clip from conference,
Hillary Clinton reaffirms support for more H-1B visas (01:05)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UhLBSLLIhUs
Hillary Clinton Pushes For More H1B Visas and OutSourcing, June 4, 2007
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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/10/ldt.01.html
Aired July 10, 2007 - 18:00 ET
(Note from Rob: The link might change because it was aired on July 9)
And Senator Hillary Clinton facing charges she's putting her presidential
ambitions ahead of the interest of working Americans. That special report,
a great deal more, coming right up, stay with us.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
DOBBS: Presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton, speaking to the
Indian Institute of Technology, repeated her call for an increase in the
number of H-1B visas. Senator Clinton backs a plan that would raise the
number of H-1 visas to 115,000 from the current level of 65,000.
But in that same speech, the senator also raised the concern that American
workers have about losing their jobs to outsourcing. Now, the senator is
courting Indian-American voters, and they're exerting an increasing
influence in U.S. politics. And they have the very highest average income
of any group.
The senator is the co-chair of the Senate India Caucus, by the way. They
have a total of 37 senators in that caucus, including 18 Democrats, 19
Republicans. Now, over in the House of Representatives, 176 of our
congressmen belong to the India Caucus, 115 Democrats, 61 Republicans.
Senator Clinton has been criticized for her ties to India, most notably by
Senator Barack Obama's campaign staff. Louise Schiavone now has more on the
senator's Indian ties.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
LOUISE SCHIAVONE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Democratic presidential
hopeful Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton describes herself as having close
ties to the Indian people and culture.
SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D-NY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It is certainly for me
a great honor to be the co-chair of the India Caucus in the Senate, and to
work with so many of you on matters of mutual interest.
SCHIAVONE: Among the matters of mutual interest, increasing the number of
H-1B visas where employers can seek and secure uniquely skilled help from
other countries.
CLINTON: We must create more partnerships and relationships. And it begins
with deepening the partnership with India.
SCHIAVONE: This weekend, in a video-linked speech to the Indian Institute
of Technology 2007 Global Alumni Conference, Senator Clinton called for an
expansion of the H-1B visa program, currently capped at 65,000. The program
has been a boon to the Indian community. The Department of Homeland
Security reports for 2005 roughly 48,000 Indians entered the U.S. with
those visas.
Critics say it's just another immigration boondoggle.
REP. TOM TANCREDO (R-CO), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: They don't go home. There
are probably 700,000 people in this country today who are still here,
over-staying their visa -- their H-1B visa, which is a five-year visa.
Nobody knows. We don't check. We have absolutely no way to check.
SCHIAVONE: The question is asked, what high-tech skills and training do
Indians possess at this juncture that Americans don't?
STEVE CAMAROTA, CTR. FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: If a job outsources to
another country, the Democrats aren't reluctant to say, hey, that's a
problem, let's think about that. Do we want to do that? But if the job is
lost to a foreigner who comes here, the Democrats are (whistles). They're
not interested.
SCHIAVONE: A spokesman for Senator Clinton says the New York Democrat
supports the use of H-1B visa fees to train American workers to eventually
"cut back on the need for foreign workers."
(END VIDEOTAPE)
SCHIAVONE: Lou, telling your audience what it wants to hear isn't exactly a
new political gambit. But it's transparently inconsistent to rail against
outsourcing while at the same time telling businessmen with foreign ties
that what the country needs is more of them -- Lou.
DOBBS: Absolutely. And we should point out that about seven out of 10 of
those visas are going to Indian companies. The largest companies using H-1B
visas are Indian companies in this country, outsourcing jobs. And those
Indian employees are coming in on average of $12,000 a year less than the
prevailing wage for their American counterparts.
You know, it's really quite extraordinary, and not only Senator Hillary
Clinton, of course, but the world's -- well, now he's the second richest
man in the world, Bill Gates saying, just have unlimited visas. It will all
be good. Quite a place that nation's capital, and your city. Louise
Schiavone, from Washington, thank you.
<<<<< Second segment of same show >>>>>
DOBBS: Well, Senator Hillary Clinton supporting and reassuring India,
co-chairman of the Senate India Caucus, Mr. Zimmerman. Your candidate is
being charged by a number of people with supporting India in the use of H1B
visas, wanting to raise those visas. At the expense of American workers.
What in the world is she thinking about?
ZIMMERMAN: Well, you know, Lou, even though I'm ...
DOBBS: This is going to be good.
ZIMMERMAN: Even though I'm supporting her, I still can be objective and
agree with you. Objectively speaking, what she's proposing ...
DOBBS: Did you just say objective and agree with her?
ZIMMERMAN: Absolutely. Not inconsistent. Got to be clear. She's voted
against CAFTA, she's opposed the Korean Trade Agreement.
DOBBS: Right.
ZIMMERMAN: What she's proposing is raising the price of these visas because
there is a short term need and she's also proposing more funding for
education and job training.
DOBBS: For who?
ZIMMERMAN: For American students and American job training so that the jobs
can be filled. There is a shortage. This is legal immigration. And H1B ...
DOBBS: It's legal only because it exists. What is unlawful is what American
business -- well, actually it's Indian business is doing in the United
States with it. Seven out of 10 of the visas are going to Indian companies.
They're hiring people in which there is no shortage. Talking about high
technology jobs, four out of five of these jobs under H1B visas are
category one, low-skill work. It is an absolute shame what the -- what the
immigration department is doing, what the Department of Homeland Security
is doing. And for Senator Hillary Clinton to add her imprimatur to this
issue has to be heart-breaking for a lot of working Americans.
ZIMMERMAN: If I just may respond to that, briefly.
DOBBS: Please.
ZIMMERMAN: Very simply put, no one has been a stronger advocate of growing
the economy and the manufacturing industry in America than she and some of
her other colleagues in both parties, and I gave them credit for it. This
is about filling a short-term need. It's not about in any way undermining
the American worker.
What she's proposing along with bipartisanly growing the economy and
growing funding for education, I think is really critical.
DOBBS: Errol Louis, what do you think? Did that sound like ...
ZIMMERMAN: I didn't persuade him at all, did I?
LOUIS: It sounded like an explanation. What we need is not an explanation,
but I think we need independent studies. We need congressional hearings. We
need to air this issue out. Not announce that, you know, well, this is
going to be the way we do it or else they're going to all go to Vancouver.
You know, what we need to ask is if they go to Vancouver, so what? Where
will the jobs come from? Who's going to be harmed by them? You know, is
there, in fact, going to be ...
DOBBS: So in other words, you're an empiricist, Errol, you actually want to
understand the facts. You want to know the truth and the reality of what is
now America for American working people and our middle class, just not
these out of touch, absurd, ambitious elite.
LOUIS: The way I'd put it is I've covered politics enough to know that in
the heat of a campaign, every statement has to be scrutinized very closely.
DOBBS: You know something, I have to admire the rhetoric here. You were
talking about explanations. That was absolutely a piece of art.
ROLLINS: I'll give you straight rhetoric. Straight rhetoric has to do with
Indian fundraising. Mrs. Clinton is not president yet so she can't sell
pardons, but she can certainly sell visas. And I think that's what this is
about. If you track the various fundraising activities going on in Indian
community for Mrs. Clinton, it's in direct correlation with this.
DOBBS: In all fairness, what in the world is George Bush selling? He is
wanting ...
ROLLINS: He doesn't have to sell anymore. He's got 18 months to tread water
and get out of there.
DOBBS: Well, he has no political capital with which to buy anything. That's
fairly clear, Errol.
LOUIS: Again, what we just saw with the collapse of the immigration debate,
any last pieces of it -- and I guess this last little H1B visa flap is just
the last dying gasp of the failed immigration debate. It just shows that
we're going to have to sort of tear up the script and start all over again.
DOBBS: Hallelujah. Hallelujah! What I love are these idiots in mainstream
media, some of the elite Eastern establishment print publications in
particular, and I'm thinking of two newspapers which come readily to mind,
the "Washington Post" and the "New York Times" crying their little hearts
out that Congress did not pass that dad gum piece of ignorant legislation.
It is unbelievable that they still refuse to examine the empirical reality
in this country. Don't you find as a newsman it's absolutely breath-taking?
LOUIS: Well, you know, it happens at every level of government, whether
you're looking at ...
DOBBS: But I'm talking about the Fourth Estate here, partner -- we're the
folks that are supposed to be representing the people. Their interests and
providing some independent oversight of what this government does to
people.
LOUIS: Yeah. I think the public -- or the assumption is that the public is
impatient with these questions of process. Were there enough hearings, were
there enough studies? Have we really aired it out? People just want to know
what is going to happen.
ROLLINS: There were no hearings.
DOBBS: It's a simple count. Zero, none, nada. Forgive the expression.
ZIMMERMAN: The peoples' voices were heard and the Congress did respond. The
system in this case did work. And I think that was most important.
DOBBS: You mean the American peoples' voices?
ZIMMERMAN: Absolutely.
DOBBS: The citizens of the United States. You don't mean, for example, the
H1B visa holders that corporate America, Bill Gates and Senator Hillary
Clinton would like to raise the ante on.
ZIMMERMAN: I thought the immigration bill was a bad bill and I spoke
against it on this program.
ROLLINS: You can't get on his good side.
DOBBS: Not tonight. You're not doing too good either, Ed Rollins. ROLLINS:
Let me just say this. The State Department and Homeland Security can't even
get Americans' passports ...
DOBBS: It's absurd.
ROLLINS: So the mere idea that they can step forward and promise all of
these things they're going to do is absurd and I think the American public
has a right to demand how any of these bills are going to work. And how
much is it going to cost? And they haven't done that.
ZIMMERMAN: You see the level of accountability in the Congress that really
is for the first time long overdue. I look in particular to the hearings
that are going to be held regarding the Department of Justice and the
political firing of the U.S. attorneys.
ROLLINS: Which doesn't matter. We've gone over and over that.
DOBBS: Let's not get into this tonight. These two are not going ...
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