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Judge Rejects H-1B Visa Injunction
theodp writes "Judge Faith Hochberg has denied a preliminary injunction sought by the Programmers Guild to put a hold on a controversial 'emergency' rule change by the Department of Homeland Security to permit foreign students to work continuously in the US for two-and-a-half years after graduation without an H-1B visa. Hochberg indicated she failed to see how an increased labor supply could result in wage depression for engineers and computer workers. That seems disingenuous, since in Andaya v. Citizens Mortgage Corporation, Judge Hochberg recently saw first-hand how a US employer got away with paying an H-1B computer engineer as little as $15,000 to do a job with a 'prevailing wage rate' of $41,000. In that case, Hochberg ruled against Filipino H-1B visa holder Almira Andaya, arguing that 'nonpayment of wages as listed on the H-1B visa petition ... does not raise a substantial question of federal law.'"
Is USA using slave labor again to bootstrap it failing economie?
oops my bad, yep clinton did that. She just seemed like she must be a bushie. How can anyone be sooo stupid as to not understand foreign workers will depress wages. Economics 101. she has the stench of bush even if clinton appointed her. Wonder if she was a trade to get someone clinton wanted, or if she was really wanted by clinton. Clinton at least understood the economy.
Socialism - good idea, huh?
Why would I ever go to work when someone else's stuff will be mine for just waiting around until the government takes it away?
Idiots. Socialism doesn't work and is harmful for the human soul.
I say, open the borders, let everybody in, in every profession. It'll depress our wages,
so the poor get poorer
but at least it'll keep immigrant workers spending their money in *our* economy,
so the rich get richer
and hopefully some of them will decide to become citizens and come to expect our standards of living.
standards which are now much lower.
Great plan.
And the reason that Linux is more popular outside the US, is because more Linux programmers are from outside the US. See? I can use circular logic too.
If you limit yourself to the South you depress your own wages. Whatever your reason, if you stay where supply is high and demand is low, that is the barrier between yourself and better pay, not H1-B visas.
FWIW, I agree with pretty much everyone that the health care system is fucked up. IIWKOTW (if I were king of the world) I would ban breeding by those who can't afford it, but I'm told that makes me some kind of Nazi or something. "You know who else was logical and shit..."
By working code, do you mean they can copy/paste someone else's work and put their name on it? Oh yes I see now...