The San Jose Mercury News can kiss my @$$. This year again, 65,000 H1Bs will take jobs away from Americans. That just sucks.
“Technically, as soon as they lost their jobs, they were required to leave the country. In reality, they can probably wing it for a week or two, but not much longer.”
That’s as far as I could read.
A week or two? There are over 4 MILLION visa overstays wandering the United states that they can’t/won’t find.
The odds that more than 5% will return to India, Pakistan or whatever Turd World they came from is ZERO... And, the silly leftist “Murky News” KNOWS this.
They will join the 10s of millions of illegal aliens in America - and join the lines at our Kalifornicate welfare offices where our State Employees are forbidden to ascertain their legal residency status....
We have become a nation dedicated to insanity and suicide...
Our bankrupt state will most likely respond to the financial problem by cutting back ONLY on those services the taxpayer MUST HAVE -— Police, Fire, etc.....
In private industry — LAYOFFS, SALARY CUTS, BENEFIT CUTS and across the board BUDGET REDUCTIONS equal to the short fall would be implemented by the better managed firms.
But- this is unacceptable for our anointed unionized “civil servants”...
It could resolve the problem in two weeks as “Military Governor” under Martial Law... Which is probably where the coming riots will lead us.
The H1B is meant to be for a temporary assignment.
I’ve worked jobs overseas and I’ve never had the expectation that the job would last forever, that I’d be allowed to stay afterward, or that someone would think to write a news article about my leaving. The end of a project led to the natural conclusion that it was time to return to my home country (USA) and not a reason to ‘panic.’ I get the impression that the article was written by a journalist who has never left his hometown.
I had to say goodbye to friends I met. I had to pack my suitcases. I had to spend a few layovers in airports and go through customs. Somehow I survived.
Even after a year of working in silicon valley I’d expect to have accumulated enough savings to last me several years in a lower cost country like India as I figured out my next career move.
Oh Boo-hoo.............NOT.
I’m so sick and tired of all these pity parties for these foreign workers. Where is the media outcry about the loss of American workers who lost their jobs to these foreigners to begin with?
Lou Dobbs did a series on H1B visas that was an eye opener. An immigration specialist law firm posted a seminar they had conducted on youtube. The seminar was how to get around the regulations for bringing in H1B visa workers. Talk about meaning of the word is...
Part of that stimulus bill should be to suspend all H1B visas.
Deport them. They are taking jobs away from Americans.
If I had to pick, I'd make the H1B program shrink, but not go away.
Oh fricking well!
This is a lose-lose.
Get rid of these H1-B’s, and companies have irresistible interest to set up shop by shifing entire development lines to countries like India and China, ultimately causing Americans to either relocate to these new countries, or lose more jobs than the numerical strength of the H1-B’s because companies can fulfil their hiring requirements in the new country.
Keep the H1-B’s and it suppresses American wages, besides taking away American jobs simultaneously.
It’s complicated to balance.
I'm sorry, the H1B program is simply a tool for US businesses to hire cheap labor. Outsourcing has limited success due to language barriers, distance barriers and simple differences in education - or lack thereof.
The H1B program is simply a way to import outsourcing.
Of course, it was largely their own fault for not pursuing citizenship and just assuming the gravy train would go on forever.
The bottom line is that business exploits people, and as an employee you have to protect yourself. There comes a time when you need to fire your boss first.
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