But, that's illegal. And I don't at all agree that it's fair to displace equally (and often higher) skilled people in their home country. I myself was displaced from a 7 year position this week as a result of a contract from an Indian company that simply dumped cheap, unskilled foreign IT labor into a US-based Fortune 500 company. They were in no way qualified to take over my role and I had to train my replacement from square one.
(A large and recent example of H1-B abuse:
http://www.justice.gov/usao/tx...)
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But, that's illegal. And I don't at all agree that it's fair to displace equally (and often higher) skilled people in their home country. I myself was displaced from a 7 year position this week as a result of a contract from an Indian company that simply dumped cheap, unskilled foreign IT labor into a US-based Fortune 500 company. They were in no way qualified to take over my role and I had to train my replacement from square one. (A large and recent example of H1-B abuse: http://www.justice.gov/usao/tx...)