[King Moonracer]

No matter how rural of a company I visit, there is always a growing contingent on Indians in IT. They work hard, but are taking all the IT jobs. Americans should not be displaced, especially by non-citizens.

[servantboy777]

Americans should be furious.

My company has laid off thousands of American workers and imported Indian/Chinese/Taiwanese workers to backfill those positions.

[from occupied ga]

PERHAPS if US students didn’t major in things like “Black Studies”, Gender Studies”, “Environmental Studies”, etc. and that’s the ones who are motivated to further their education. Then there are the utterly worthless masses who feel “entitled” to the fruits of the labors of those ever diminishing sector that actually works for a living. If maybe people would make themselves desirable in the job market, then there wouldn’t be the need to hire foreign citizens.

[Erik Latranyi]

First, the story about Microsoft is misleading. They just purchased Nokia and let the redundant staff go.

Second, I do not trust any story from a Howard University professor. They are lying liberal scum.

Lastly, the real issue is the cost of labor is far more than the salary....especially in California. Regulations, mandates, healthcare, etc. are all far, far higher on the left coast.

But, just as Obama gave Chrysler away, for free, to a foreign company with US taxpayer loan guarantees, it is politically incorrect to see US workers vs foreign workers anymore (except during a political campaign).

[nathanbedford]

We have no immigration "policy," rather we have immigration politics.

It is almost impossible to debate whether it is for the greater good to import skilled people to keep America at the cutting edge of computer science or whether importing foreign gifted workers at lower wages will only start a race to the bottom in which every employer will be compelled the fire Americans and hired cheaper aliens in order to compete. That debate is worth having. It is also worth having a debate about whether companies like Google really need bodies to be physically present in America when so many American firms are now communicating not in person but in cyberspace.

But it is impossible to have these debates so long as Democrats are flooding the country with unskilled, unschooled bodies who have no real virtue except in their propensity to vote Democrat.

[Drango]

A good article but it understates the arguments against H1Bs. We are eating our own seeedcorn.

Each year college students declare majors.Some decide to major in French, some Geology, some pre-med, some pre-law, some astrophysics, some sociology and so on. Among those students are those who decide to major in computer science. However, wages for CS graduates are depressed by H1Bs. ECON 101.

As wages are depressed, the career of becoming a technonerd becomes less attractive to students. It’s hard work and given the pay, other career choices are more attractive.

Double the salary of CS graduates and we will have plenty of students in that career field.

[redgolum]

This is why we no longer have anything but an aristocracy.

The voters don’t want this, but the elite are determined to make sure no one rises up to challenge them.

[glorgau]

H1-B visas might be acceptable if the visa holders were allowed to switch employers with the initial company paying all the fees.

That would change the equation used - much more risk to bring in somebody that can jump ship for a better offer (as any American can) rather than an indentured servant.

[central_va]

"Everyone actually agrees that there should be more H-1B visas in order to create more tech, more science, more analytical jobs. Everyone agrees, in both parties."

You got a turd in your pocket?

[ThomasMore]

work for lower wages than current employees

Corporatism + GREED = Failure to true capitalism We no longer live in F.A. Hayak's free market capitalism.

[Rockitz]

I saw this coming three decades ago. Unless a government security classification is required to perform the duties of your profession, you are in danger of being replaced by a foreign worker. Even with a security classification, if the flood gates for H1B workers is opened, it’s only a matter of time before you are replaced.

[minnesota_bound]

Eric Schmidt has a “open” marriage meaning he has no morals so you expect something like this from him.
Seeing millions of Americans unemployed while those companies that could hire them will instead hire foreigners instead just so they can pad their ceo pay more and give them something to talk about at the clubhouse.

[Vortex]

This is from 8 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU

[Lazamataz]

Goofle’s new motto: “Be As Evil As Possible.”

[C19fan]

As a FYI Ted Cruz is in favor of increasing by a factor of five the number of HB1 visas a year. I will not be supporting Ted Cruz when he is threatneing my job and wages.

[muggs]

I manage an apartment community very near a large Indian owned consulting company. They only hire Indians on on H-1B visas for the upper management positions. Most of them are completely obnoxious and think nothing of breaking their leases whenever the company sends them to a new location.

I found a secret Face Book page where IT employees that work for that company complain about how horrible the company is. It is not the upper employees. It is a bad company for the entry level employees, with no chance for advancement in the company.

If it is an Indian entry level employee all they do is complain about the American employees.

[momincombatboots]

Tax dodgers.. The truth isn’t the lack of unskilled workers, it’s the millions of dollars employers dodge in federal tax liability. Everyone know it, yet it’s never discussed.