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Chris McManes Copies of "Stolen Jobs" Series Available Free to Media WASHINGTON (27 May 2003) — If you’re a policy maker or an investigative reporter, you’ve got to see “Stolen Jobs.” Produced by WKMG-TV, Local 6, in Orlando, Fla., “Stolen Jobs” provides an in-depth look at how some employers take advantage of loopholes in the nation’s immigration laws to replace U.S. engineers and computer scientists with cheaper foreign workers on H-1B and L-1 visas. IEEE-USA, with permission from WKMG, reproduced the series onto CD and is making it available free to media sources. Please contact Helen Hall at h.hall@ieee.org or 202-785-0017 for your CD. All 535 members of Congress will also receive a copy. WKMG Investigative Reporter Steven Cooper interviewed affected workers, industry representatives, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) for “Stolen Jobs,” which aired in February and was updated on 20 May. “The more we investigated, the more alarmed we became,” Cooper said. “How had this been happening to the American worker? And why didn't anyone know about it? We felt obligated to share this information with the public. If this story raised the awareness of some Americans, forced elected officials to reconsider this issue, or simply gave the displaced worker a venue to be heard, then we are deeply gratified to have pursued it to the extent we did.” IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers created in 1973 to promote the careers and public-policy interests of the more than 235,000 electrical, electronics, computer and software engineers who are U.S. members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society. For more information, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org. NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: If you’re working on a story about the loss of American jobs to H-1B and L-1 visa holders or offshore outsourcing, we’d be happy to help you with background information and interview sources. Contact Chris McManes at c.mcmanes@ieee.org or 202-785-0017.
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