Randall Burns by email has graciously supplied me with some information that makes the issue of Tom Tancredo and H-1B a little more complicated to understand.
http://www.zazona.com/NewsArchive/2005-09-21%20Tancredo's%20un-REAL%20GUEST%20Ac t%20of%202005.htm
http://www.outlander.com/policy/imref.htm
and the following that I found in a search
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1054928/posts
Rather than characterize this material myself at this time, I will let the reader follow the leader, in this case Randall Burns, to these other sites.
== The post I had before the input from Randall Burns:
Tom Tancredo has on numerous occasions taken a strong stand against H-1B visas. The following shows that Tancredo has a strong record against H-1B.
Better Immigration has what appears to be an error in its grade for Tom Tancredo as a member of the Colorado Delegation.
For Tom Tancredo as a presidential candidate, they give him an A+ and a check on all items. This is a detailed list.
http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/TancredoPres08.html
http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/prez08_gop2.html
For his individual record in the Colorado Delegation they show him with a B+/C+ on visa workers.
http://grades.betterimmigration.com/testgrades.php3?District=CO06&VIPID=146
Tancredo’s Numbers USA profile is all green as well:
http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=CO&VIPID=146
This error has propagated to Wikipedia:
Tancredo was an early critic of H-1b expansion. However, his recent votes in that area have been only slightly more restrictive than the average member of Congress and earned a C+ from Americans for Better Immigration, a project of NumbersUSA, in that area of immigration policy.
In 2005, Tancredo sponsored legislation to eliminate H-1B visas for temporary workers[28].
Americans for Better Immigration has awarded Tancredo a career score of 100% and a career grade of A+ for his opposition to amnesty for illegal aliens [29], his efforts to eliminate the automatic granting of citizenship to the babies of illegal aliens[30] and for his support of the interior enforcement of United States immigration laws[31]. In 2007, they awarded Tancredo a “Congressional Immigration Reduction Grade” of A+.[32]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tancredo
http://grades.betterimmigration.com/testgrades.php3?District=CO06&VIPID=146
Randall Burns has written a recent column relying on the seemingly incorrect Colorado delegation record for Tancredo at Better Immigration, showing a poor voting record for Tancredo on H-1B. We find, as indicated above, with further research that that webpage appears to be inaccurate.
(In the google blog search engine, for Tancredo H-1B and some other searches, it picks up the Randall Burns quote, and thus gives an incorrect view of this column which finds no support for the poor record on H-1B indicated by the website Burns linked to.)
http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=CO&VIPID=146
http://programmersguild.org/docs/Tancredo_18Jun2003.html
Tancredo Statement to House June 18, 2003
Reference: Congressional Record Online (highlighting added)
So I am saying that it is now approaching a million people, if not more, that are here under an H-1b program that are taking jobs in “that high-tech industry that no other American would take.” Does anybody really buy that?
What we know is that they are being given these visas because they will work for less. It is a cheap labor program.
http://teamtancredo.typepad.com/team_tancredo/2007/07/tancredo-on-c-3.html
http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2007/08/05/ames-straw-poll-and-immigration/
Furthermore,despite his early attention to H-1b expansion, Tancredo’s recent voting record on H-1b expansion has been fairly weak. Paul has placed less emphasis on immigration, but has a stronger recent record on H-1b expansion.
Is this vote record on Tancredo accurate? It seems in conflict with the Numbers USA link above on Tancredo’s voting record and Tancredo’s statements on H-1B. The website Randall Burns references, Better Immigration, lacks a link to the House on actual votes of Tancredo.
Numbers USA does have links to the Library of Congress webpage.
====Excerpts Numbers USA follows==========
| Cosponsored bill to reduce foreign worker importation by eliminating the H-1B program in 2005-2006 |  |
| Rep. Tancredo was a cosponsor of H.R 1325, to repeal the H-1B visa category for temporary workers in specialty occupations. The H-1B program increases the number of high-tech workers allowed into the U.S; however, there aren’t that many high-tech jobs available in the U.S.Without evidence of a shortage of high-tech workers, and considering it is laden with fraud and abuse, there is no need for the H-1B program. H.R. 1325 recognizes the fact that the program is obsolete – if it was ever truly needed – and puts an end to the unfair job competition for America’s high-tech workers. Read a summary of the bill here. |
| Cosponsored legislation to protect American jobs by reforming the L-1 and H-1B visa programs in 2003-2004 |  |
| Rep. Tancredo cosponsored H.R. 2849, the USA Jobs Protection Act of 2003. H.R. 2849 would have implemented reforms of the H-1B and L-1 visa programs aimed at preventing American high-tech workers from being displaced by foreign workers. The legislation included important protections for American workers, including prevailing wage and no-layoff provisions. It also extended current no-layoff provisions for H-1B dependent employers to all H-1B employers. A companion bill, S. 1452, was introduced in the Senate by Senator Dodd. |
| Cosponsored bill to abolish the H-1B program in 2003-2004 | |
| Rep. Tancredo cosponsored H.R. 2688, a bill to abolish the H-1B visa program. Introduced by Rep. Tom Tancredo, H.R. 2688 would have put an end to the H-1B foreign-worker importation program that primarily allocates visas to high-tech workers. The annual cap of 195,000 on H-1B visas returned to its previous level of 65,000 in October of 2003. |
====Excerpts Numbers USA ends==========
Search H-1b at Numbers USA page on Tom Tancredo to find info on his record with links to House.gov.
http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=CO&VIPID=146
WaPo article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/16/AR2005121601814.html
House Votes to Toughen Laws on Immigration
One Setback for Bush: No Guest-Worker Plan
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 17, 2005; Page A01
http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/publications/yearbook.shtm
H-1B are part of non-immigrant admissions. For the US government, immigrant means here to stay permanently. Even though most H-1B’s do, they represent they are here temporarily.
2005 Admission Numbers Page 3 of pdf:
The following are the flow for 2005, not the stock of total H-1B’s in the US in 2005, which was larger.
Temporary workers/trainees and families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .883,706
Specialty occupations (H-1B). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407,418
Spouses/children of H-1, H-2, and H-3 workers (H-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130,145
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/2005_NI_rpt.pdf
Edwin Rubenstein discusses these immigration numbers at Vdare
http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/070731_nd.htm
see also his displacement index
http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2007/08/03/july-jobs-american-worker-displacement-resumes/
Search h-1b Tom Tancredo
