To: H-1B/L-1/offshoring e-newsletter Mon Jun 3 18:36:51 PDT 2013 Carolyn Lochhead has a nice followup to her excellent piece of a couple of weeks ago, which I reviewed at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/GreenCardTrojanHorse.txt So far these are the only two reports I know of that have focused on the truly disastrous "staple a green card" aspect of the Senate bill. It just doesn't seem to be on people's radar. Even the AFL-CIO op-ed criticizing the high-skilled parts of the bill, at http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/05/28/h1b-visa-high-tech-workers-afl-cio-editorials-debates/2367769/ made no mention of it. It's interesting that even the analyst at the very pro-immigration MPI quoted in today's Lochhead article was surprised to see how broad the "staple" provision is, both with respect to field and respect to quality. The zoology student who just barely graduated for his master's degree at a very ordinary state college qualified for the automatic green card just as much as the PhD in physics from MIT. One minor error in the article: It says that the students don't need a job offer to qualify. They do, but that is no restriction at all; any job in a "related field," say clerk at Radio Shack or junior high school STEM teacher, would count. Then a few months later, green card in hand, they can go look for a job really in their field. Norm Archived at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/Lochhead.txt