There are plenty of people who have a valid axe to grind with the H-1B process and how it has been used in the American economy.
And of the people I have worked with over the years in technology, I have worked with excellent people of Indian extraction, but it is true, I have also worked with some real duds.
Same can be said of whites, blacks, men, women, Russians, Vietnamese, Filipinos, the list goes on.
I never asked their status, so I don’t know. But I will say I worked with a database engineer of Indian extraction who was the best I ever encountered. I would work with or for him any day, any time. Knowledgeable, hard working, congenial, sense of humor-saved my bacon more times than I can count.
Therefore, I am not willing to paint all people of Indian extraction with that same brush some people are, but then again, I have never been victimized by the terrible and anti-American abuses surrounding the use of H-1B visas.
I have not walked in those shoes.
But I am an American, and I abhor these abuses which must be rectified. And I can fully accept the assertion that these abuses have been used both to reduce IT costs at the expense of American workers AND have been used to fill the upper echelon ranks by Indians who preferentially hire other Indians.
My feeling is, if they are not American Citizens, I have no problem with these H-1B changes. It is all part of re-shoring American expertise and jobs.
You wrote: There are plenty of people who have a valid axe to grind with the H-1B process and how it has been used in the American economy.
And of the people I have worked with over the years in technology, I have worked with excellent people of Indian extraction, but it is true, I have also worked with some real duds.
Same can be said of whites, blacks, men, women, Russians, Vietnamese, Filipinos, the list goes on. I never asked their status, so I don’t know. But I will say I worked with a database engineer of Indian extraction who was the best I ever encountered. I would work with or for him any day, any time. Knowledgeable, hard working, congenial, sense of humor-saved my bacon more times than I can count.
Therefore, I am not willing to paint all people of Indian extraction with that same brush some people are, but then again, I have never been victimized by the terrible and anti-American abuses surrounding the use of H-1B visas. I have not walked in those shoes. But I am an American, and I abhor these abuses which must be rectified. And I can fully accept the assertion that these abuses have been used both to reduce IT costs at the expense of American workers AND have been used to fill the upper echelon ranks by Indians who preferentially hire other Indians.
My feeling is, if they are not American Citizens, I have no problem with these H-1B changes. It is all part of re-shoring American expertise and jobs.
We need a thoughtful national conversation on this issue and other related issues - not jingoistic bumper sticker slogans from instigating trolls like marcusmaximus, who is trying to get Free Republic to present itself in a bad light, like the old Democrat Know-Nothing Party.
And doing a good job of it, too...