Competition is generally regarded as a good thing. When these people stay in the USA, they generally depress wages and send all the money they earn back to their home countries anyway, which does the rest of the US economy no good at all. Really I'm not sure we should even have any sort of H1-B program at all.
"We do not produce enough technically qualified candidates in this country,"
Complete Bullshit.
What they mean is..."We do not produce enough technically qualified candidates in this country that we can pay low wages and hold hostage with H1-B visas"
as someone who has a mix of both H1B and american workers under his care, I can tell you this: if you want high end technical labor, we simply DO NOT have enough qualified candidates here in the united states. We eat up EVERY SINGLE ONE that we can get our hands on that is an american citizen or has permanent resident status that is qualified when we have an opening, because going through the process of hiring high end candidates is time consuming and a drain on your resources. If you think we're paying t
Out of curiosity, what do you think of replacing H1B with 15k needed skill new greencards / year?
In addition, it would only be open to companies with American based HQ.
Add to this, offering greencards to all American trained PhDs in needed fields ( I.e. will not be offered to say English or art ).
By removing the H1B, you remove the slavery of it. By not allowing non USA companies, then it means that companies that pay taxes here are the ones getting a say.
Someone please mod the above up, he's nailed why people who are forever in danger of losing their visa at the whim of their employer are more attractive to a certain kind of boss than a local employee.
it is funny how many ppl gripe about the fact that their pay went down, while never noticing the fact that these H1Bs are paid a fraction of what we are paid. That is slavery in every sense of the word.
I don't see the problem. (Score:5, Interesting)
Utter Bullshit (Score:5, Insightful)
"We do not produce enough technically qualified candidates in this country,"
Complete Bullshit.
What they mean is..."We do not produce enough technically qualified candidates in this country that we can pay low wages and hold hostage with H1-B visas"
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as someone who has a mix of both H1B and american workers under his care, I can tell you this: if you want high end technical labor, we simply DO NOT have enough qualified candidates here in the united states. We eat up EVERY SINGLE ONE that we can get our hands on that is an american citizen or has permanent resident status that is qualified when we have an opening, because going through the process of hiring high end candidates is time consuming and a drain on your resources. If you think we're paying t
Re: Utter Bullshit (Score:2)
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Someone please mod the above up, he's nailed why people who are forever in danger of losing their visa at the whim of their employer are more attractive to a certain kind of boss than a local employee.
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