H-1B, the outsourcing visa

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H-1B, the outsourcing visa

Uncle Entity

Sun Apr 15 01:39:39 -0700 2007

Jobs.

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ZDNet is running a blog by John Carroll where he discusses how H-1B visas in the US are being used by Indian outsourcing firms to displace US workers. "Rather than preventing the outsourcing of jobs, the H-1B program acts in just the opposite way, by accelerating the outsourcing of high-wage, high-skill jobs to low-cost countries."

A slightly different take on the situation than Guy Fawkes previous Technocrat story on the subject.

H-1B, the outsourcing visa

President4242

Mon Apr 16 13:02:37 -0700 2007
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This is surprising to people exactly why?

H-1b usage is undeniably linked to cheap labor & an almost nepotistic endorsement of culture. If you bring a worker in from another country, he's going to send business back home where costs are cheaper. This is as expected and planned.

Only the politicians think any differently. And even they don't, which is why the H-class visas are officially de jure non-immigrant visas (despite the fact that de facto, that aspect of the program is almost never enforced).