FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 2, 1999
BUCHANAN: H-1B INCREASE
BETRAYS AMERICAN WORKERS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Republican Presidential candidate Patrick J.
Buchanan released the following statement:
"In 1998, after a fundraising tour of Silicon Valley, the Clinton-Gore
Administration doubled, to 115,000, the number of H-1B high-tech foreign
workers who could be brought into the United States every year.
"Yesterday, after his own highly successful buck-raking tour of the
Valley, Governor George W. Bush proposed yet another steep hike in that
annual immigration flow. Said Bush, 'The limit on H-1B visas should be
raised.'
"The elite of both parties are now in an unseemly competition to see who
can do more to pander to the super-rich by selling out the American
worker.
There is no shortage of Americans who qualify for these $50,000 and
$75,000-a year high-tech jobs; there is no shortage of young Americans in
college, preparing for these jobs.
"To allow Silicon Valley to import scores of thousands more foreign
workers every year, to take the jobs of the future that would otherwise go
to Americans, represents a betrayal of the American middle class by a
selfish slice of our corporate elite. Unfortunately, that corporate elite
has both Beltway parties snuggly in its wallet pocket.
"In American politics today, it would seem there is nothing that is not on
the table, nothing not for sale for campaign cash, including the American
dream of our middle-class and the future of America's young."
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