TY - BOOK AU - Malkin,Michelle TI - Sold out: how high-tech billionaires & bipartisan beltway crapweasels are screwing America's best & brightest workers SN - 9781501115943 (alk. paper) AV - HD 8072.5 M251s 2015 U1 - 331.620973 23 PY - 2015///] CY - New York, NY PB - Threshold Editons/Mercury Ink KW - Labor policy KW - United States KW - Labor market KW - Foreign workers KW - Government policy KW - Professional employees KW - Business and politics KW - Politica laboral KW - Estados Unidos KW - Mercados de trabajo KW - Trabajadores extranjeros KW - Política gubernamental KW - Economic policy KW - 2009- KW - Política económica N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Part I: The H-1B betrayal -- When Barry met Jennifer -- Debunking the big fat lie -- Marketing, media, and myths -- Dig your own grave -- 50 shades of H-1B abuse -- Part II: An alphabet soup of visa fraud, abuse, and corruption -- "BILOH": The B visa boondoggle -- EB-5: America's disastrous cash-for-citizenship racket -- The L visa: a secretive "back door to cheap labor" -- F-1: The foreign "student" visa ruse (aka yet another cheap foreign worker pipeline) -- OPT: Open-borders bureaucrats run amok -- Part III: The big government-big business betrayers of America's best and brightest workers -- Legion of doom -- Exposed: how Beltway crapweasels cooked up the Gang of Eight's "comprehensive immigration reform" -- Where do the 2016 candidates stand? -- Conclusion N2 - "The syndicated columnist teams up with an expert on the effect of foreign labor on technology workers to challenge popular misconceptions about foreign labor and reveal corrupt practices that are undermining America's high-skill workbase,"--NoveList ER -