[JoeMomma]

You've posted a lot on the H-1B. I'm just wondering if you're in the computer industry?

Yep -- I am. I've not been laid off or anything or even fear being laid off (in fact, I'm actually up for a promotion). But it does bother me that our country is selling out to big businesses who are in search of cheap workers. I bring up this issue a lot because I'm just surprised at the lack of outrage at it. Our tax money is supporting a program that unemploys many Americans in the tech field.

Read another post I made today -- How to Tap India's Cheap IT Labor -- it's an article that appeared in CFO Magazine's website. To me, it's immoral that corporate America is handing Congress a lie about "this is not about lowering IT salaries" and then a financial trade mag pretty much admits that it is! It's insulting to the intelligence that there's a supposed shortage in the tech fields, layoffs are widespread in the tech fields, and yet companies lobby for MORE H-1B's in a recessionary period.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

60 minutes and CBS reported on the fraud of H-1B several years ago, but like you said there's been very little outrage over it. Maybe with the recession and people losing their jobs more focus can be brought to it. What Congress is thinking is beyond me. They're only concern is money. The fate of Americans isn't important to them apparently.

[Dave S]

It's insulting to the intelligence that there's a supposed shortage in the tech fields, layoffs are widespread in the tech fields, and yet companies lobby for MORE H-1B's in a recessionary period.

Are these people being layed off skilled in the languages that the companies want? If someone is skilled in doing web pages and the company needs someone to write in C, I dont think there is a fit.

Rather than depressing salaries in the field, H-1B may be bringing them down to what the market would have been if there werent these artificial shortages caused by borders.