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With H-1B Cap Hit, Zuckerberg and Ballmer-Led Groups Press For More Tech Visas
theodp writes: With the FY2016 H-1B visa cap reached in the first week of April (only the USCIS knows how many applications were submitted by outsourcing companies and from Bentonville, AR), it's no surprise that groups like Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us PAC and Steve Ballmer's Partnership for a New American Economy Action Fund are pooh-poohing Jesse Jackson's claims that foreign high-tech workers are taking American jobs, and promoting the idea that what's really holding back Americans from jobs is a lack of foreign tech workers with H-1B visas.
This has nothing to do with creating American jobs, and everything to do with driving down the cost of hiring people so that billionaire douchebags can run companies at a higher profit by making sure they pay Americans less money since they now have to compete with someone from India for a lower salary.
This is the big players distorting the labor market by lobbying politicians to allow them to change the playing field.
How many US tech workers are currently under or unemployed? And how many of them have these companies considered hiring?
Instead they write a job description which is impossible, or geared to bringing in a specific foreign worker.
This whole foreign worker crap is basically big corporations forcing wages to go down by bringing in people who will work cheaper.
As I said, billionaire douchebags. And this is more or less theft on a grand scale because people keep buying into the notion that what is good for companies is good for everyone else.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
As has been said here many times before. It isn't that companies can't get qualified American workers, it's that they can't get qualified American workers for the low wage they want to pay.
They already go through the motions. The government DOES NOT ENFORCE THE CURRENT LAW. The law requires them to look for US workers, but they BS their ways through that requirement.
Look at the Cohen & Grigsby video on youtube! They're so brazen in their violating the law, they even post videos on how to do it out in public.
Imagine someone posting youtube videos on how to do tax evasion on your tax form. They'll have IRS agents arresting them in minutes.
But here we are talking about how to evade the immigration law, and nothing happens to them.
the south east is jesusland (bible belt). many of us in the bay area would not be caught dead living in the deep south. I should not have to splain it to you, either.
if you grew up there, fine. if you are not from there, they do not want you (and I don't want them, either).
any place that has, as a first social question 'so, which church do you belong to?' is no place for me; same with most of the people I know in the silicon valley area.
its expensive here but its not as 'christy' and that is wroth a lot, to me.
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Let me tell you about my personal experience dealing with a particular H1-B holder. He was a competent software developer from South America, and he was terrified of being deported because of the effects it would have on his young family. As a consequence, he was willing to do almost anything to keep the job, including working long hours of overtime for no pay.
Having talked to other H1-B holders, I find their perception is that it is not that easy to change jobs. It may be that you're right, and they're wrong, but some of them feel very uncomfortable about their situation. They feel they have little or no power.