Technically nobody should be “hiring illegals” (which is different from H1B arrangements, which tend to be contractors). It is banned. But the nation is falling asleep with the nodding and winking.
A contractor economy makes sense to nervous companies in a tight time with greedy, proud tyrants (not private enterprise, but government) presiding over it. I’ve switched to that mode and in fact am working cheek-by-jowl with H1B, which almost to a person are very decent.
“Technically nobody should be “hiring illegals” (which is different from H1B arrangements, which tend to be contractors). It is banned. But the nation is falling asleep with the nodding and winking.
A contractor economy makes sense to nervous companies in a tight time with greedy, proud tyrants (not private enterprise, but government) presiding over it. I’ve switched to that mode and in fact am working cheek-by-jowl with H1B, which almost to a person are very decent.”
I think somehow that HighTech Redneck is making money off of these H1-B visa holders rather than working with them. I too am somewhat of a high tech redneck having grown up in Montana and working in IT for over 23 years.
Nobody’s arguing against a contractor-based economy but why can’t those contractors be Americans? Why should Americans have to suffer declining wages due to unfair foreign competition and then pay higher taxes to support the families of these H1B visa workers who tend to come over with the H1B scabs to fund medical care, subsidized housing, welfare Social Security payments, etc.?
The H1-B and L1 visa system has turned into a classic government boondoggle where the federal government, bribed by special-interest money from big corporate donors, shifts cost from corporations to the American taxpayer through taxes and onto the poor and struggling middle class workers through lower wages,!declining opportunity and inflation due to increased demand for products and services.