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How the 'Tech Worker Visa' Is Remaking IT In America
theodp writes "Back in 2008, the Department of Homeland Security enacted a controversial 'emergency' rule to allow foreign students earning tech-related degrees in the US to work for American employers for 29 months after graduation without a work visa. The program would allow US companies to recruit and retain the 'best' science and tech students educated at the top US universities, explained Microsoft. But two-and-a-half years later, it turns out the top US universities are getting schooled by less-renowned institutions. Computerworld reports the DHS program is dominated by little-known, for-profit Stratford University, whose 727 approved requests for post-graduate Optional Practical Training (OPT) STEM extensions tops all schools and is more than twice the combined total of the entire Ivy League — Brown (26), Columbia (105), Cornell (90), Dartmouth (18), Harvard (27), Princeton (16), Penn (50), and Yale (9). In second place, with 533 approved requests, is the University of Bridgeport. In another twist, the program's employers include IT outsourcing and offshoring 'body shops' like Kelly Services, whose entities snagged about 50 approvals, more than twice the combined total of tech stalwarts Google (15), Amazon.com (2), Yahoo (2), and Facebook (3)."
At least we know the Indians (Hindu) arn't eating our precious hamburgers!!
You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts.
Ivy League schools are not technical schools. I can't think of a single one of them which has a computer science or engineering program worth mentioning. Hell I don't think they even have much in the way of a general science program. We all presume that the Ivy league is awesome, but if you're not going for some sort of liberal arts degree you're pissing your money away.
You mean smart people from relatively poor families are choosing to send their kids to schools that cost less than the families combined income for the year or more?
Thats fookin news to me. Only reason why I would attend a ivy league is to make connections, open doors, and play with expensive toys, and land a trust fund baby as a gf.
I would be nervous going to any now because most of the projects that get you a good job are collabrative and if you are stuck with some rich kid that is just along for the ride.. Well that would suck
Hows about go home? The corps are sending our middle class jobs overseas, we are being filled with people from other countries taking the lower class jobs, it means no jobs for us. Hows about fuck you and the horse you rode in on. This is coming from someone who got downsized when my companies workforce upsized the number of H-1Bs.
Cracking down on migration is just making things worse, think about it. The boss says "you're not legally allowed to have this job so how about I give you $10 per hour instead of $25 and not report you". Everybody loses, even the boss that is getting a bigger slice of something that is turning to shit.
Some of the imported workers are smart, some are not, but all are willing
to work past 5 pm and most are willing to work for wages that are well
below the national average for the skillset required.
The L1 visa is not mentioned here, and it is also not mentioned that
the SEVENTY THREE different types of Visa are abused and used
to bring ppl into this country for things they were not intended.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_visas#Select_List_of_the_Various_Types_of_Visas
Once you consider that some of the 911 hijackers got their visas AFTER
they hit the towers, then you see how worthless the system for approval was.
Once you see that ppl are still getting Visas even though the
TRUE U6 unemployment rate is closer to 28% then you
realize that the ppl we elected to represent us clearly are not.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/careers/what-is-the-real-unemployment-rate/19556146/
But in the end this will simply bite the employer in the ass as
the top consumer in the world here int he US will start to
consume less and that will effect their bottom line.
But what we are seeing is simply a race to the bottom, and
with 28% TRUE U6 unemployment that bottom is not too
far away.
What is coming will make the great depression look like
a recession.
The natural evolution of fiat currency is predetermined.
34 instances of hyperinflation are fact, no debate required.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Examples_of_hyperinflation
That fact that most of these were intentional caused is
up for debate with John Perkins defining the intentional pretty clearly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29GhXsx7-Rs
So with intentional financial collapse on the table, follow
the money and then you start to see what is in your future.
Good Luck to all the good ppl !!!
google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"