H1B VISA RACKET
IN THE NET: US federal agents busted a H1B visa racket spread across seven states.
New York: A Federal Grand Jury has indicted 11 people, all of them of Indian-origin, in six stat...
H1B VISA RACKET
IN THE NET: US federal agents busted a H1B visa racket spread across seven states.
New York: A Federal Grand Jury has indicted 11 people, all of them of Indian-origin, in six states on H-1B visa fraud charges, and an information technology company called Vision Systems Group.
Vision Systems Group is based in New Jersey, but it has an Iowa office in Coon Rapids.
Federal law enforcement accuses Vision Systems Group of defrauding the US government, and ultimately costing American workers computer jobs.
"What we found here is that some folks have found some ways to make misrepresentations to the government that disadvantage American workers who did not have the opportunity to apply for the real jobs that existed," says US Citizenship and Immigration Services official Michael Aytes.
The Fed say Vision Systems Group sponsored highly-skilled foreign computer workers through a temporary professional worker visa.
The US grants H-1B visas if companies meet stringent conditions. The companies must justify the need, disclose the job's exact location and pay a locally prevailing wage.
US Department of Labor records showed that in 2004, Vision Systems Group sought the government's permission to hire foreign workers as programmer analysts in Coon Rapids at a $38,000 starting salary.
The same job listing for the same company that same year in Somerset, New Jersey started from $40 to $47,000, which was $2,000 to $9,000 higher.
The indictment accuses Vision Systems of obtaining the government's permission to import I-T workers to Coon Rapids at a locally acceptable salary.
But the Fed said that in reality, Vision Systems sent those employees to California or New Jersey, paying them the lower salary tailored for Coon Rapids.
"I think it directly affects American workers. I think you could look at these locations where these workers were, and that they probably displaced qualified American workers because they were working at a lower wage than the prevailing wage of that location," said US Attorney Matthew Whitaker.
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this is all part of the liberals plan to destroy the US and turn it into just another third world country. They say we have it too good here. We eat too much and the cars we drive are too big and our houses are to large and we get paid too much. ITS NOT FAIR BOO HOO I say fuck the Indians and send them all packing and kick everyone of their SWARTHY ass's out of this country.
lets not turn this into a racist thing ok. the issue here is cheap labor being used by big corporate america. bush was no liberal, and he gave these people tons of h1b's and was a huge outsourcer, while the democrats, and yes even obama is doing something about it. hence why the h1b visa should be scrapped altogether, because of its abuse by american companies.
the same problem in australia..the education system in austrlia has become an immigration racket, which leaves local students with worthless degrees..
Hell, the CEO of IBM got a HUGE bonus for cutting all the contractors pay by 15% LAST YEAR!!! IBM is in a death sprial down the corp toilet. Give em 5 years, and the loss of all the US based companies they now do business with, and some dumbassed Indian that made a million or two, will buy up IBM and rename it Indian Business Machines. Just like Alcatel (French owned) bought up Lucent Technologies for pennies on the dollar in early 2003.
And even with all the training, they still are mere script readers. Throw them something not in the script, and they send the work back to the worker in the USA to clean up after them. Sorry, but they ARE ALL 3rd world countries, and our Congress and Pres, along with GREEDY assed lawyers are all supporting the transfer of jobs to these 3rd world countires, all for the almighty buck.
I work for IBM, and I am watching them lay off HIGHLY SKILLED and HIGHLY EDUCATED US workers so they can pay an UNEDUCATED, UNSKILLED SCRIPT reader to do the job for 1/5th the pay. The are NOT qualified, nor educated. We are training them, and teaching them how to do our jobs, only to get laid off one day. 25% American workforce and 75% BRIC (Brasil, Russia India and China) and now Argentina. They ALL work for nothing, and have no or LOW skills, and have to be trained by the US worker.
Yeah, well, Obama is doing nothing to stop it either, and I doubt the spineless bastards will ever do anything to stop it. We will all be living like the Majority of Indians do in the near future. There will be the RICH and the rest of us poor bastards looking for jobs, just like most of the Indians do now. It is Government and Corp greed, thats all.
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wow.
well, i guess we're not alone.