They haven't been recognized or filed yet, but they are coming soon . . .

(1) Addition of "citizenship" to the Equal Employment Opportunity Act:
Today, in the United States, being a United States citizen is a serious obstacle to continued employment in many professional fields, specifically including I.T. Millions of citizens have been denied equal employment opportunity in favor of non-citizens who are employed under "non-immigrant visa" programs such as H-1B and L-1. The EEOA does not presently include "citizenship status" in its list of actionable criteria. But when one walks into vast halls of cubicles filled only with Indians, with pictures of the occupants at the head of each row (since you can't pronounce the names), this is prima facie evidence that the worker population inside that building is not at all a cross-section of what is outside of that same building.

(2) Similar legislation against the L-1 program:
L-1 allows a foreign corporation to operate on American soil and to pay its laborers foreign wages. Unlike H-1B, there are no quotas on this program: the Customs Department claims not to even know how many millions of people are here, even though this is ridiculous: they issued every one of those credentials. This program creates unlawful discrimination against American companies (and, American workers) who must compete with workers who are paid less than the American minimum wage. Certainly, the notion that "the person who is obviously working here," is not entitled to the protections mandated to citizens who are "obviously (no longer?) working here," is a grotesque injustice to that person as a human being. That person is being exploited, period.

(3) Declaration that L-1 is unconstitutional under the 13th Amendment:
This Amendment declares that "involuntary servitude shall not exist in the United States." Both "peonage" and "indentured servitude" have been declared unconstitutional according to this Amendment, and L-1 should follow. The foreign workers are being held in effective positions of peonage -- paid too little, lacking private transportation, and "owing their soul to the comp'ny store" for basics such as room and board, and food. Because the Amendment specifies where, territorially and geographically these conditions are prohibited, they apply to non-citizens as well as citizens. Further, the Amendment prohibits a condition of being, without giving it a name, and declares that it "shall not exist."

Every generation in every century has faced its own form of labor-relations battle, and in the 21st Century we find a concerted effort to bring back the worst of 18th and 19th Century practices ... at the unlawful expense of both citizen and "borrowed person" alike. We tried to drive-out such things a hundred fifty years ago, framing this ideal in the supreme law of the land. It's time once again to make these laws meaningful, and to stop the abuse of people in the name of money. Step-one is to look it in the face and to see it for what it is, and to call-it-out by name. It's a familiar devil, indeed.