How many skilled workers is too many?

Why does Compete America not highlight recent overseas policy changes such as those covered in the articles at the following links:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/22/immigration-limits-jacqui-smith

http://www.blonnet.com/2007/12/12/stories/2007121253121000.htm

Tech firms are keeping a secret from you: they can legally discriminate against talented US citizens and family-based green card holders - and they want to keep it this way. Companies now routinely post want ads for "H-1b only", use these programs to outsource American jobs and force us to train our foreign replacements.

These tech CEOs are part of a long string of American naysers that argue discrimination will advance America. What this article fails to reveal is how out-of-step this is with the Obama administration.

But four federal agencies and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) are not only revealing this diabolical manipulation of immigration law— they are doing something about it.

First among the stellar crew is the Department of Justice, filing criminal charges against an Indian body shop – derisively called “bully shops” by Indian IT H-1bs – on visas fraud and wire tapping arguing that the company “substantially deprived U.S. citizens of employment." The DOJ brief argues "in January of 2009, the total number of workers employed in the information technology occupation under the H-1B program substantially exceeded the 241,000 unemployed U.S. citizen workers within the same occupation.” This case is groundbreaking. It will document the lengths that IT employers use in order to bypass local talent – and make it illegal to bypass US citizens and green card holders.

Next comes the Department of Labor, headed by Hilda Solis and USCIS, headed by Janet Napolitano. Both agencies, under previous administrations, rubber stamped corporate requests to fill US job openings with foreign citizens. No more. Both agencies are examining applications with a fine tooth comb – including sending investigators to the company’s site.

Finally, the IRS’s investigation of corporations using the H-1B program is another example of the heightened scrutiny the H-1B program has undergone in recent times.

Black Computer Science grads are now at parity with the US population. 4th and 8th graders in Massasschutes and Minnesota now out perform many of their Asian counterparts in math and science.

American tech firms can't remain competitive until they adhere to EEO recruiting and hiring practices and give us a chance to compete for job openings in our own country.

The answer, of course, depends on how bright and
talented and "skilled" they are, and how over-
crowded the USA already is.

On a scale of 0 (a rock) to 200 (Einstein, Dirac, Curie,
Marilyn Vos Savant, Auguste Rodin, Ludwig van Beethoven,
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson...)
with an average of 100,
if they're 200+ we should accept 100K per year,
if they're 190+ we should accept 50K per year,
if they're 160+ we should accept 1K per year,
if they're 130+ we should accept 100 per year,
if they're 115+ we should accept 30 per year,
if they're 100+ we should accept 10 per year,
plus two by lottery, once each has passed proper
background investigations, of course.

It's not a nice, clean log scale, but you get the idea.