Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com)

Silicon Valley companies continue to express their concerns about the restrictions on H-1B visa program. The H-1B visa program -- which enables U.S. companies to hire foreign workers -- has become a political lightning rod but remains essential for American companies to hire the technical talent they need to compete on a global scale, said GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving. From his interview on CNBC: "We do not produce enough technically qualified candidates in this country," he said. "You can't take an 18-month training program and produce a machine-learning scientist." Irving was particularly concerned about overseas competition. The American university system is good at training foreign workers for tech jobs, and it is essential that the U.S. government allows them to stay in the country to fulfill U.S. jobs, he said. Otherwise, we train workers from countries like China and India and then send them back to those countries to set up tech ecosystems that compete with Silicon Valley.

Comments

Re:I don't see the problem.

[AK Marc]

When you don't insource the jobs, you outsource them. If you don't import the workers, the jobs will be sent out. Then the other workers will stay away, not paying US taxes, and keeping the "intelligence" they gain for themselves, to eventually overtake the US.
If the work is going to Bob in Elbonia, it's better to import Bob for the job, than export the job to Elbonia and have Bob do it there.

Re:I don't see the problem.

[Jzanu Syr]

You are a fucking retard!