UK terror happened because of unchecked import of skilled migrant workers – it is time to stop H1B permanently in US
Harish Baliga
Jul. 4, 2007

The way America and Britain import skilled workers without thorough background checks is the root cause of Al-Queda’s success in creating unlimited sleeping cells.

Al-Queda is recruiting software engineers, doctors, and other highly skilled professionals in Bangalore, Hyderabad, and other cities all around the world to create sleeping cells in US, UK, and other countries. They focus on India because Indian passports will be presumed ‘terror-free’.

It is time to stop the so-called H1B program. Every skilled professional entering UK and US must go through a thorough background check and be monitored continuously by the Homeland Security department.

The cost for monitoring these individuals should be transferred to the employers in UK and US who sponsor these alien workers.

The Al-Queda recruitment network in Indian cities goes well beyond the perimeters of the Islamic communities. Software Engineers and other professionals are constantly approached with large sums of money by these Al-Queda recruiters to create sleeping cells in America and Britain.

All H1Bs should be monitored. All foreign skilled workers should be immediately background checked. If you just look at the Islamic names, you can be very well fooled. In India for example, it takes little bribe to change name and get a false passport. The US consulate normally allows H1Bs to get the visa without much question.

The H1B can also bring false spouse in H4 visa. The H4 visa holder is just a spouse of the H1B and is not allowed to work in US. A false H4 visa holder can easily be a suicide bomber lurking in US malls.

It is time to stop H1B visa issuance immediately the way it is done in US. "We''ll expand the background checks that have been done where there are highly skilled migrant workers coming into this country," British Prime Minister Brown told the House of Commons in his first appearance at the weekly Prime Minister's questions.

"As a result of what has happened in the National Health Service, I have asked Lord West, the new Terrorism Minister, to conduct an immediate review as to what arrangements we must make in relation to recruitment," Brown said.

It is required that Bush Administration and Homeland Security department take the matter into their hands fast. The employers sponsoring these H1Bs should be taxed heavily for paying the cost of the background checks of H1Bs and constant monitoring of the same.

Anyone can walk in as H1B in America, and bring a false H4 spouse with him or her. They can form sleeping cells and create havoc in America like they did in Britain.

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