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Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com)
India's IT lobby warned on Tuesday that a bill before the U.S. Congress aimed at imposing tougher visa rules unfairly targets some of its members and will not solve a U.S. labor shortage in technology and engineering. From a report on Reuters: Industry lobby group Nasscom was responding to a bill introduced by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California, that would double the minimum salary required for holders of H-1B visas to $130,000 and determine how many of the visas were allocated, based on factors such as overall wages. India's $150 billion information technology sector, led by Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro, uses the H-1B visas to fly engineers and developers to service clients in the U.S., their biggest market, but opponents say they are using the visas to replace U.S. workers. Concerns about President Donald Trump's immigration policies were heightened by his ban on refugees on Friday. "The Lofgren Bill contains provisions that may prove challenging for the Indian IT sector and will also leave loopholes that will nullify the objective of saving American jobs," Nasscom said.
So you *do* care. Awww.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
The amount of needful that will get done could drop as much as 15%.
That's actually an improvement. In 1979, I had to teach a Pakistani student how to use a laundromat. Fellow student down the hall, he had asked me what the best way was to the river, to wash his clothes. . .
At least your fellow student wanted to find the river to wash his clothes. Some (even US born) students lacked the understanding that clothing needed to be (at least occasionally) washed.
Wish I could say that I have seen it improve in the past 30 years, but I still encounter at least one student a year needing this life lesson.
They should introduce bidets in this country
Google has bidets in their restrooms. Great when they work. When they don't work, I find my balls touching the ice cold water in the bowl and my ass catching fire from a bad heating element in the seat. That's no way to take a shit.