Blogswarm this!

I realize that this little bloggeroo doesn't have the kind of high traffic to mount an effective blogswarm, but it's worth a try.

As someone who has watched a spouse go through a number of job searches, plowing through ads with long lists of requirements for completely unrelated skills that no one person can possibly have, it's been clear to me that job recruiting is done with the clear goal of NOT finding qualified American workers, so that H-1Bs can be hired instead.

Thanks to Carrie, who commented here for the first time yesterday and who is being blogrolled as a way of expressing our thanks, we now see that there are, in fact, immigration attorneys who are in the business of helping employers disqualify American workers to facilitate the hiring of foreign workers:

If you are not a tech worker and you think this doesn't affect you, guess again. It affects all of us.

And if you're thinking of supporting Hillary Clinton for president, call her campaign headquarters and refer them to this video and ask what the candidate's official response to this kind of practice is. If you're supporting Bill Richardson, ask how "education" addresses the problem of a policy that allows companies to rig the system to exclude American workers. Then please share with us in the comments what you find.

(More at Information Week and lots more videos of media coverage here. Note how all of the representatives interviewed in the media coverage are Republicans. Does this mean the Democrats support excluding Americans from the job force via these tactics? I think it's worth contacting our Democratic representatives and Senators, as well as our presidential candidates, and finding out.)