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Opening the Door to More Skilled Workers?
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Perhaps Craig Barrett, chairman of the multinational company Intel Corp., could rely on the L-1 visa, in addition to H-1Bs, since presumably his company is suffering so from a shortage of foreign labor. The L-1 allows for intracompany transfers, so Mr. Barrett could transfer employees around the world to the United States for up to five or seven years, depending on the type of worker. As a bonus, the company wouldn't have to go through all those pesky and inconvenient motions of trying to show that Americans aren't being displaced and wages aren't being depressed.
Although Mr. Barrett's open-borders brethren in Europe and the United States are experiencing some grief from us national-sovereignty types, the open-borders set far outguns the rest of us and will no doubt be able to conduct business as usual via such stealth guest-worker and Blue Card proposals.
JAN TOUMA
Durham, N.C.
