[KingKongCobra]

I hate to get involved in something that's a waste of time. You feel too strongly about this for me to have an impact. Nonetheless, In Houston for 2002 there are a grand total of 41 H1B1 hires. The average salaray is 51,000 per year. It's safe to assume that taxes and living expenses consume about all of this. You can complain about people taking your job but the idea that this money is drained from the economy is ludicrous. In every downturn, people need scapegoats. I see you've found yours.

[FormerLurker]

Nonetheless, In Houston for 2002 there are a grand total of 41 H1B1 hires.

You obviously didn't look too hard. Just one search for Programmer/Analyists in Houston returned over 220 H1-B workers on one page, where the search was limited to 500 records so only 10 pages were returned. As I said, there were OVER 220 on the FIRST page!

Now if you look at the OTHER categories, you'd see that the number of H1-B workers in Houston is ASTRONOMICAL.

[FormerLurker]

BTW KKC, the number of records is not the same as the number of hires, as there can be MANY workers on one application. Additionally, you need to look not only at how many were hired in 2002, but you need to look at how many are working here period. That is where you'll begin to see the scope of the problem..

[FormerLurker]

In fact KKC, try looking at how many were hired in 2001. There you'll see that they must have been ferrying them in by 747s at least once a day...