Posted on 04/15/2015 6:04:52 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Companies are seeking more foreign workers than ever before to fill highly skilled jobs in technology and other industries, but the United States will grant visas to just a fraction of them in a lottery that began this week.
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> Unemployed? Employed but take home pay is getting less and less each year? Get ready to compete with 195,000 foreigners each year.
The big corporate interests that employ them could care less if the U.S. was reduced to rubble as long as they still have a consumer base and cheap labor.
There ARE American workers qualified to fill these positions.
If you've never been in IT you may not be aware of how this works.
A guy in India signs on with a company and then the company gives his varying degrees of "training" in a multitude of systems, thus he can claim "experience" in just about anything you might be looking for.
In return, the individual signs an agreement whereby any pay he receives goes to the company, which in return gives him a stipend.
The indian company sells the services to an American company at a fraction of the market rate of an American worker.
The workers are sent over here and often live with up to 20 or so fellow H1Bs to an apartment, because the stipend can be very low.
The American company then makes generous "contributions" to congressmen who enthusiastically support the program, while the company still pockets big savings. Meanwhile Americans are out of work and entry into IT career fields is stymied.
The H1B program has absolutely nothing to do with the availability of "qualified" Americans to do the job. It is merely outsourcing with the foreign recipient being brought here.
Well put. And the H1B’s are all worthless at their job due to numerous factors and the end user/client/customer gets a sub-par product/service/experience as a result.
Good information.
In this article the liberal news media keeps up its propaganda war against Americans, against America and against freedom. the news media and democrat party want to bring in as many foreign immigrants as they can to vote for socialism and to take away American jobs.
When will people realize that there is no news ? there is no news as the “news” is just cherry picked stories and propaganda to advance the democrat party agenda of socialism/marxism.
People think that they are getting “news” or what is happening in the world but in reality the news media is waging a war against Americans and their freedom. Propaganda is a form of warfare and the news media is the enemy, the whole media is the enemy and our biggest threat
You are 1000% right. Check any extended stay or Inn in Silicon Valley, they are filled with H1B visa guys from India.
Indian Companies hold H1B employees salaries till 1.5-2 years.
It is complete exploitation. This visa had become sweat shop or slavery visa.
A simple message to these employers from the next POTUS:
“Hire Americans or face the consequences.”
Those consequences being the loss of their access to the US markets. If they just want to parasite off our economy, without any loyalty to the US, as in, not paying taxes, not hiring Americans, and not buying American products, then the US owes them nothing in return.
Aye, there's the rub. Americans will be too poor to buy their products or services. When NAFTA started up, I wrote numerous CEOs that all they were doing was laying off each others' customers. If they answered at all, it was a pat on the head and told "Global Competition" was good (while looking only as far as the next quarterly report).
According to a female Indian programmer I worked with, another trick is to put the guy on salary and work him 70-80 hours a week, but only bill the client for 40.
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