There is no justification for the numbers of H1-Bs already given out; it is just a program to further reduce American workers to serfdom. India should be more concerned about the brain drain occurring within their country, as their best & brightest flee; it ensures that what is left behind remains very Third World.
To make it clear that it is INDEED about reducing American tech workers to third world serfdom, IBM told their laid off US workers that they should move to India where their (low) salaries would go farther.
IBM to laid-off: Want a job in India?
CNN ^ | 2-5-2009 | Karina Frayter
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IBM Offers To Move Laid Off Workers To India
Information Week | Feb. 2, 2009 | Paul McDougall
Posted on Tuesday, February 03, 2009
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A spokesman for Alliance@IBM, a workers’ group that’s affiliated with the Communications Workers of America but which does not have official union status at IBM, slammed the program. “IBM is not only offshoring IBM U.S. jobs but they want employees to offshore themselves through Project Match,” said the spokesman.
An IBM spokesman said the program shouldn’t be seen in that light. “It’s more of a vehicle for people who want to expand their life experience by working somewhere else,” said the spokesman. “A lot of people want to work in India.”
IBM now employs more workers in India than US
NY Post ^ | 10/5/13 | John Aidan Byrne
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I’m more concerned about the brain rotting going on here. American students are studying fields like engineering, medicine, and business less in favor of degrees in useless fields. There’s a huge shortage of engineering talent right now in the US; all that limiting the supply to meet that demand will do is encourage the next great tech company to be formed in India.