No, one is not a racist merely for opposing this administration on surveillance policy

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213. There's even more crap than LGBT rights in immigration bill. H-1B visas are killer for me...

As a tech worker who just became unemployed again at the beginning of this month, I'm continually offended by Schumer's constant "service" to his corporate cronies in helping expand H-1B Visa programs in every bill he seems to be able to do so, against the interest of American tech workers.

Make no mistake about it, the H-1B Visa program hurts everyone (both American workers and the H-1B Visa workers ultimately) to help corporate America continue to expand their boundaries in their race to the bottom in terms of getting cheap labor. H-1B has nothing to do with "immigration" and everything to do with exploitation of a cheap and temporary labor supply that is built upon modern day indentured servants.

Now, kind of like the OP, someone might call people like me xenophobic, etc. when nothing could be further from the truth. I LIKE working in a diverse work force, and moved to the west coast to be in one that was more diverse. I lived half of my younger life overseas. I also hate that many here that WANT to become citizens have to through so many hoops to do so and it often takes over 10 years now to get their citizenship. Not a coincidence in my book, as those in power would rather have temporary workers from abroad than have them become citizens, which is OPPOSITE the tradition of our American dream of people moving here to become a part of the American dream and be citizens. My best friend from college is still in a position I helped him get when he still only had a student visa many years ago, and now is the director of technical operations there and married to a woman he met on the job and a happy citizen. THAT is the kind of immigration that I want to see being encouraged. Not this crap of H-1B Visa that create so many artificial "rules" that they continually work around in their race to the bottom.

And Schumer's a big part of that problem year after year when this topic comes up. So quite frankly, even though a real and CLEAN immigration bill is long overdue and needs to be passed to help those that are undocumented fix their situation, I won't be crying if this very corrupt bill in its present form dies at this time. Maybe later if we can recapture the House in 2014, we can get a good bill that all of us can support.