NY Times: Temporary Visas To Import Talent Help Copycats Take Jobs Abroad

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @01:49AM from the glad-you're-paying-attention-now dept.

ErichTheRed writes: A new article from the NY Times surprised me. It describes what we in the IT industry see all the time — H-1B visas being used way outside of their original purpose. I think this is significant because the article describes the problem well and shows how Tata, Accenture, etc. are offshoring regular office work as well as IT work. I feel that showing the average Joe/Jane that their nice safe middle class office job isn't so safe is the only way to sway popular opinion on this important matter! Reader theodp notes that Congress is making H-1B visa less costly for India-based IT services providers.

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Re:Is the NYT Racist? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-30 02:31 · Score: 0, Troll

Just to add fuel to the fire... These H1-Bs are smart tech workers who want to come and work and not just sit on welfare. From comments in the other story you mentioned those should be the ones at the front of the line and you would have to be a total idiot to try and keep them out.
I think your comment wins for today. They will be attempting to beat you senseless for using their logic against them and will tell you how its different here. The only difference is its "them" instead of some people in Europe they don't care about being affected.