Actually, no, that's not what I was claiming--sorry about being too brief. What happens, currently, is that the Indian body shops send them here for a degree, then bring them back to India, and then tell prospective clients that "x% of our programmers hold master's degrees from US colleges." So it's not US employers spending large sums of money in order to hire foreign nationals, it's foreign companies spending middling sums of money to find yet one more way to deceive clients about their capabilities and competence. Anyway, my point was that the mills are already here.
Can you name one? Being an immigrant myself I have not heard of this so called foreign companies sending folks here to study so that they can misuse them later. DO you know of any specific cases where that has happened. If you do than I will back you to complain USCIS about such illegal practices and have it stopped.
And, if this no-cap on advanced degrees passes, just watch the next logical step unfold--legislation removing the accreditation standards. Bet on it:-(
And again do you have any valid proof of this? or just throwing an accusation with no real data to back up?
Can you name few diploma mills? Not every institution qualifies for STEM degree programs. Just having a mere degree from any US university is not enough. The program has to be approved under the STEM program.
By increasing the number of H1B the senators are trying to make sure the jobs stay here in US rather then being off-shored. Immigrants on the H1-B Visa pay taxes, Social Security and Medicare and contribute to the economy. The $$ contributed towards Social Security and Medicare are free $$ that government gets as the immigrants are not even eligible to get those benefits. Immigrants have immensely contributed to the growth of IT in this country, look at the technical heads of most of the successful IT companies - Facebook, Google, Microsoft to name a few.
What attracts us to your country is the notion that this is a country built by immigrants and who welcome immigrants who are willing to work hard to achieve the American Dream. Most of the guys who are opposing this maybe need to look few generations back in their family. I can understand the backlash against the Illegal immigration but not sure about the issues against legal immigration. Most of the accusations thrown out here are complete lack of understanding of how complicated the legal immigration system is. Just don't assume things - maybe spend some time understanding the issue before opposing it.
I am just bit confused - so all of you guys opposing this you would rather prefer to see the jobs being off-shored than an immigrant coming here working under the US laws and contributing to economy?
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Actually, no, that's not what I was claiming--sorry about being too brief. What happens, currently, is that the Indian body shops send them here for a degree, then bring them back to India, and then tell prospective clients that "x% of our programmers hold master's degrees from US colleges." So it's not US employers spending large sums of money in order to hire foreign nationals, it's foreign companies spending middling sums of money to find yet one more way to deceive clients about their capabilities and competence. Anyway, my point was that the mills are already here.
Can you name one? Being an immigrant myself I have not heard of this so called foreign companies sending folks here to study so that they can misuse them later. DO you know of any specific cases where that has happened. If you do than I will back you to complain USCIS about such illegal practices and have it stopped.
And, if this no-cap on advanced degrees passes, just watch the next logical step unfold--legislation removing the accreditation standards. Bet on it :-(
And again do you have any valid proof of this? or just throwing an accusation with no real data to back up?
Can you name few diploma mills? Not every institution qualifies for STEM degree programs. Just having a mere degree from any US university is not enough. The program has to be approved under the STEM program. By increasing the number of H1B the senators are trying to make sure the jobs stay here in US rather then being off-shored. Immigrants on the H1-B Visa pay taxes, Social Security and Medicare and contribute to the economy. The $$ contributed towards Social Security and Medicare are free $$ that government gets as the immigrants are not even eligible to get those benefits. Immigrants have immensely contributed to the growth of IT in this country, look at the technical heads of most of the successful IT companies - Facebook, Google, Microsoft to name a few. What attracts us to your country is the notion that this is a country built by immigrants and who welcome immigrants who are willing to work hard to achieve the American Dream. Most of the guys who are opposing this maybe need to look few generations back in their family. I can understand the backlash against the Illegal immigration but not sure about the issues against legal immigration. Most of the accusations thrown out here are complete lack of understanding of how complicated the legal immigration system is. Just don't assume things - maybe spend some time understanding the issue before opposing it. I am just bit confused - so all of you guys opposing this you would rather prefer to see the jobs being off-shored than an immigrant coming here working under the US laws and contributing to economy?