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Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs

Posted by Soulskill on from the either-that-or-they-don't dept.

walterbyrd sends this snippet from an article by Robert X. Cringely: "Big tech employers are constantly lobbying for increases in H-1B quotas citing their inability to find qualified US job applicants. Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and other leaders from the IT industry have testified about this before Congress. Both major political parties embrace the H-1B program with varying levels of enthusiasm. Bill Gates is wrong. What he said to Congress may have been right for Microsoft but was wrong for America and can only lead to lower wages, lower employment, and a lower standard of living. This is a bigger deal than people understand: it's the rebirth of industrial labor relations circa 1920. Our ignorance about the H-1B visa program is being used to unfairly limit wages and steal — yes, steal — jobs from U.S. citizens."

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  1. If Americans cannot compete with non Americans... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Americans have MORE opportunities than non Americans for education (they have the entire American market, and are free to study for 4 years to attempt to secure a seat in top colleges around the world (India needs 4 years prep, selection ratio of about 200k for 2500 seats in IIT's, other countries are probably better off))
    Why are they unable to compete other that sheer incompetence and laziness?

  2. so what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Jobs shouldn't have a nationality and national boundries are overrated anyway.

  3. Re:Immigration Is Good by macbeth66 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey1

    Careful where you sling that truth!

    This is slashdot where reason and the truth almost count for nothing...

  4. Re:Here here! Well said. by lgw · · Score: 0, Troll

    No one deserves a "living wage" or any wage except what someone is willing to pay. No one deserves anything from another, except to be left alone when desired. It's on you to gain some skill that others need so much that they'll pay well for it!

    --
    Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
  5. Re:If Americans cannot compete with non Americans. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How does it feel to have come over here to a country that is not your own and taken food out of the mouths of American babies?

    You are a horrible person.

  6. Re:If Americans cannot compete with non Americans. by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, I accepted a six figure salary as an H1-B to begin with (and that's base, not counting bonuses). Is that substandard? Not according to the American labor market. So whose job am I "stealing"?

    And don't tell me that I'm skewing the market down by participating in it. H1-Bs don't even account for 1% of it. Their effect on wages is negligible.