[Slipjack]

There should not be any H1B Visa's issued to any one and all that are here in this country on H1B Visa’s should be rounded up and deported back to there country ASAP and Americans HIRED in their PLACE that are qualified, even if they are in NY and are needed in CA.

No excuse is accepted.

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Why?

I started a company a number of years ago that would have been impossible to start without the Russian and Ukrainian engineers that worked for me. These people were, literally, rocket scientists with postgraduate degrees, some with Ph.D.s. They would have been unobtainable at any price in the U.S., and certainly unobtainable to a startup.

They are all U.S. citizens or PRs now and two of them are millionaires. Their productivity will be paying for your retirement.

Sorry, but, as an employer, you can't hold my money hostage. If the right person is in India, Romania, Brasil, or Viet Nam, then either that person comes here, or if you stop me doing that, the project goes to where the right people are. With laptops, I can fit all the capital equipment for a 10 person development and Q/A lab in my luggage - network, servers, everything.

I just did a consulting gig with a company that does their engineering in Turkey, at about 10% of the U.S. cost. Smart people are everywhere. And smart work will find them.

But believe me, the U.S. is better off if we continue to allow the elite of India, Russia, and China to come, and stay, here. Commercial software development is an elite pursuit, just like elite sports. Should we send the Russians and Latvians in the NHL home because some guy from Maine is scraping along as a minor league enforcer?