They Are Bigger Than US

It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that they ( the H1B industry and its minions ) are bigger than we are ( Americans fighting massive government programs to import cheap foreign workers ).

A casual perusal of any of the search engines on the topic "H1B" will produce page after page of sites for H1B immigration lawyers, H1B bloggers, H1B interest groups, H1B sponsor organizations, H1B employment agencies, H1B assistance organizations ... there are even sites for H1B marriage brokers ... the list is endless.

Interspersed with these point men on cutting edge of reverse colonialism in America, one will find occasional links to sites opposing the H1B foreign worker program - the ratio is about 1 link opposing H1B to 10 supporting it.

Certainly, that is reason enough to conclude that "they are bigger than us", but one particular link caught my eye. I think it may say more about the power and scope of the H1B industry than the rest of them combined.

Call me naive, but I hold a special place in my heart for Wikipedia. In a sense, it is the voice of the people more than any other institution I know of, certainly more than our political institutions where money talks so frequently and eloquently. It's very democratic. Wikipedia is not perfect; no voice ever speaks perfectly. It is not flawless; nothing in this world is flawless. But it's very good, much better than our power/money besotted culture deserves.

So it was with real alarm that I encountered an article in Wikipedia concerning the so-called 'H1B Crisis'. I quote:

The H-1B crisis occurred most recently in 2008 when the US FY 2009 H-1B visa quota was reached one week into the application process starting April 1, 2008. The previous year had similar results. ...

What H1B Crisis ? As foul and flawed as the H1B program is, this is how it works. When something works the way it is supposed to, that means it's a crisis ? I had to question the premise of the whole article. And it wasn't just me questioning this article, half a dozen other people on the H1B Crisis discussion page also questioned it. "Propaganda" one person called it.

What really got me was that this article had been sitting there on Wikipedia for over a year, nearer to two years. Articles are routinely deleted or merged into other articles ( I recently interjected myself into a debate over an article which was about to get axed ). So why, amid the universal and unopposed opposition against an entire article devoted to an imaginary H1B crisis, is the thing still there ?

Is this persistence of the indefensible on Wikipedia telling something about H1B program itself ?

Perhaps it is saying that if this type of delusional nonsense about the H1B program can be so persistent in Wikipedia, then how much worse will the situation be among our money-crazed politicians in Washington looking for any delusion they can latch on to in order to keep a massive and lucrative job destruction program going.

They are bigger than us now, but more and more Americans are coming to understand how our politicians and business leaders have deceived us about the impact of foreign worker programs in this country. The odds against us may be 10 to 1 now, but times are changing. Eventually, Americans will be able to get their collective finger on the political delete button for the H1B program, sooner the better.