Tell
Sen. Warner's staff that you oppose the StartUp Act 2.0, a bill that would
create 50,000 new visas for foreign-born students in the STEM (science,
technology, engineering and math) field and 75,000 visas for immigrant
"entrepreneurs."
Proponents
of the bill (big business owners and politicians) tell us that we need more
foreign STEM workers because we don't have enough to compete with the world.
But,
the truth is...
--
1.8 million Americans have engineering degrees but do not have an engineering
job.
--
101,000 American engineers are looking for a job and cannot find any work at
all.
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Only about one third of native STEM professionals are currently employed in
jobs closely related to their degrees.
--
Some two thirds of native STEM workers are employed or are training for jobs in
unrelated fields.
--
It is in the big businesses' best interest to DECREASE wages by INCREASING the
number of foreign students who they can pay less than American STEM graduates.
We
talked extensively about the flaws of this bill in our webcast last week
including the creation of diploma mills and the influence of the
"billionaires club" on immigration policy -
Here
is a list of events for the first half of June, please take a few minutes out
of your day to stand up for American STEM workers!
Poquoson
THURSDAY MAY 31
TIME: 10 a.m. - 12 noon
WHERE: Poquoson Library
500 City Hall Ave.
Poquoson, VA 23662
Yorktown
THURSDAY MAY 31
TIME: 1:30 p.m. - 3:30
p.m.
WHERE: Yorktown Library
8500 George Washington
Memorial Highway
Yorktown, VA 23692
Charles City
MONDAY JUNE 4
TIME: 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Government
Administration Building
10900 Courthouse Road
Charles City, VA 23030
Berryville
TUESDAY JUNE 5
TIME: 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: 101 Chalmers Court
Suite A
Berryville, VA 22611
Leesburg
TUESDAY JUNE 5
TIME: 1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
WHERE: 380 Old Waterford
Road Northwest
Leesburg, VA 20176
Floyd
TUESDAY JUNE 5
TIME: 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
WHERE: Jessie Peterman
Memorial Library
32 West Main Street
Floyd, VA 24091
King and Queen
THURSDAY JUNE 7
TIME: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
WHERE: King & Queen
Branch Library
396 Newtown Road
St. Stephen's Church, VA
23148
King William County
THURSDAY JUNE 7
TIME: 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
WHERE: Upper King William
Branch Library
694-J Sharon Road
Aylett, VA
Henry County
FRIDAY JUNE 8
TIME: 11 a.m. - 2p.m.
WHERE: Henry County
Administration Building
Board of Supervisors Room
3300 Kings Mountain Road
Martinsville, VA 24112
Greensville/Empori
WEDNESDAY JUNE 13
TIME: 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Richardson Public
Library
100 Spring Street
Emporia, VA 23847
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