You keep throwing out this statement but Ive not seen anywhere in any of the crap that youve posted what you mean? How many dollars is the Federal Government spending on this program besides the cost of stampting a visa application? Are you saying the government is going out and actively recruiting these employees? If you want to win over any but the race baiters and anti immigration people you need to get a hell of a lot more specific.
I hope you own or are at a high level in your company. If your management found out you were paying more to an unqualified applicant to learn a computer language than you could to hire a qualified applicanat to immediately address your companies problems and needs, they might fire you. Intead of paying them to work, you are paying them to learn to work. With typical gratitude, they will cross the street and work for your competitor shortly after they get trained and get a better offer.
Sounds like affirmative action to me. Like going out and hiring only blacks over whites regardless of their past performance, just so you can be politically correct.
Ah, let's see if we can explain this to you.
Corporations solicit the government for a program to allow them to import labor under the guise that there is a shortage of qualified workers, when in fact there is not nor was there ever. The government then eases immigration restrictions in specific classes of labor in response to this request even though there has never been a shortage of labor.
The end result is that the cost for labor is reduced. Which from a corporate standpoint is fine, however from an individual standpoint, it sucks.
The free market that so many in corporate America claim to revere appears to not apply to the labor market.
The H1-B program can be summarized as nothing more than SCAB LABOR.
Think of it in these terms, for every H1B laborer in this country that holds a job, there is one less job available for a graduating college student, unemployed technician, or engineer.
Now just what don't you understand about this?.
---max
I didn't hire the 50-something on my staff, but our clients are delighted with him and that's enough for me to keep him around. My boss and his boss agree. You have this false notion that training is a huge time-waster. It isn't. My mainframe guy picked up Linux and a couple of web languages quickly, and he's a profitable employee and his clients are very happy with him.
You see, there's a certain morale boost in investing in your employees. Employees with high morale and the tools to do their jobs are more productive employees. One of the reasons I got my promotion is because my management method works. You don't earn loyalty from your employees by threatening to replace them with a cheaper H-1B at any moment.
I know that people aren't productive if they are constantly worried that an H-1B could replace them with the same skills for less money. I'm aware of the general distrust of employers and corporations and the fact that loyalty is a two-way street. Companies can't expect loyalty and give none in return.
Keep employees happy and expect results from them (but not indentured servitude from them). It works. Only immoral companies would fire a good American employee for an H-1B.