''Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers'' is a 2015 book authored by
Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin (; Maglalang; born October 20, 1970) is an American conservative political commentator. She was a Fox News contributor and in May 2020 joined Newsmax TV. Malkin has written seven books and founded the conservative commentary ...
and John Miano, a displaced high-tech professional, author and attorney who specializes in business immigration law at the policy level.
The book confronts the perception of a
STEM
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* Plant stem, a structural axis of a vascular plant
* Stem group
* Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
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professional shortage, exposes the flawed economics supporting the perception, and cites findings that
offshore outsourcing
Outsourcing is a business practice in which companies use external providers to carry out business processes that would otherwise be handled internally. Outsourcing sometimes involves transferring employees and assets from one firm to another. ...
firms are the predominant users of high-skill temporary employment-visas.
The book's publication follows media reporting that
Pfizer
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,
Southern California Edison
Southern California Edison (SCE), the largest subsidiary of Edison International, is the primary electric utility company for much of Southern California. It provides 15 million people with electricity across a service territory of approximate ...
,
and
Walt Disney World
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to name a few, have each forced hundreds of employees to train their foreign replacements or risk their severance, unemployment eligibility and professional references.
Additional studies cited conclude that a high percentage of qualified U.S. STEM professionals are unable to find employment in their field.
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Overview
Rather than an exposé on the illegal immigration topic, ''Sold Out'' highlights temporary-employment immigration, watered-down regulations, the lack of will and authority of regulators to vet applicants and investigate abuses.Programmers Guild
''Programmers Guild'' is an attorney-founded group intended to protect legal hi-tech immigrants to the United States and help them in obtaining Green cards. ''The New York Times'' called them a trade group and, in 2016, a " tech worker organizat ...
and has been a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is an American anti-immigration think tank. It favors far lower immigration numbers and produces analyses to further those views. The CIS was founded by historian Otis L. Graham alongside eugenicist a ...
since 2008. He earned his J.D. from Seton Hall University
Seton Hall University (SHU) is a Private university, private Catholic Church, Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizab ...
and has testified before Congress on three occasions.
Reception
In an interview and call-in segment on the ''Washington Journal
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'' (C-SPAN
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), Malkin and Miano noted bipartisan consensus on the topic among the callers, regardless of Malkin's known conservative leanings.
New York Times
The New York Times
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did not do a book review on this Malkin book, and they ignored her use of the term ''crapweasel'' in the plural on the cover. In 2009 they praised her first hardcover book.
See also
* AC21 (Extends H-1B & L-1 visas beyond limitation statutes)
References
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2015 non-fiction books
Books about immigration to the United States
Simon & Schuster books
Books by Michelle Malkin