H1B Visas Supply and Demand

Nobody is immune to the law of supply and demand. If immigrants with H1B visas are lowering the market rate for your job, a career change or upgrade may be in order.

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[linuxguru1968]

@vbboyd Glad to hear you say that. Too bad the leader of both the major parties dont realize this. During the last Presidential campaign boht Obama and McCain were for raising the cap on H1B. Kind of scary that in this economy where so many are hurting, the politicians follow the corporate propoganda.

[vbboyd]

@linuxguru1968 Absolutely comparing H1B visa workers with Irish Immigrants of the 1840's and 1850's is comparing apples to oranges. As far as Doctors and Nurses not being replaced that simply is not true. Many Doctors and Nurses are here on guest visa worker programs as well. According to INS/DOL the US imported over 9.5 guest workers between the years 2007-2010, while the US jobs market was shedding 8 million jobs. Outrageous! Trying to justify the guest worker visa program is ridiculous!

[linuxguru1968]

@chrisjsz281234 H1Bs are not immigrants they are guest worker - there is a difference. And, you are right, no fortune 500 company has been founded by an H1B. There have been foreign born founders of companies but they are not H1Bs they came here as kids: Segrey Brin and Jerry Yang. The few H1Bs that have done significant work can from Europe not China or India.

[chrisjsz281234]

@linuxguru1968 Yeah, you are 100% correct!!! I have been interviewing for an IT job for the past 2 months, and every single company I go to is full of East Indians, Chinese, and Russians. So, they are now even 'managers' who are East Indian who are interviewing me. I know for sure that they will hire an immigrant over me, simply because I am not an immigrant. IT is a joke, and it will continue to get worse because of immigrants. Fight back people, we have to take our industry back!

[chrisjsz281234]

Name one immigrant who created a REAL software company that created any sort of quality software product at all, that we would know about? That's right NONE!

[joeljoseph999]

Hey Neil well said man!!!I totally agree with you

[linuxguru1968]

The Truth: H1B is a non-immigrant guest worker program started in 1990. The biggest users of H1B are the domestic Indian outsourcing companies. 85% of H1B earn less that $50K/year some as low as $9/hour; only about 5-10% earn > $200K/year the wages of the truly rare workers. The program doesn't recruit the best and brightest; it can't - the drawing is completely random!

[linuxguru1968]

Lie 7: Lawyers - routine legal services are being outsourced to India; what almost any paralegal can do here is being off shored. This is old hat: Jobs that can move will; the problem is that the government is flooding the market with a glut of foreign workers for those jobs that cannot move resulting in depressed wages and worker displacement.

[linuxguru1968]

Lie 6: Medical - Yes, you do. About half of the doctor in the US are from China and India and are recruited by the big healthcare corporations. The cost of medical school in these places is dirt cheap; so they come here with a lot less debt that American kids who have to pay for it themselves. Any aspect of medicine that can move has or will move: Radiology, the reading of x-rays, is now routinely outsourced to India. NASA has a robotic arm that can be used to perform surgery remotely.

[linuxguru1968]

Lie 5: The question is not do immigrants contribute but how do H1Bs contribute? The patent is irrelevat to the H1B isssue because it doesn't tell how many were filed by H1Bs. Ditto with the start up numbers, it just showed that the company had a foreign born employee with no indication of how many were H1Bs. No Fortune 500 technology company was founded by an H1B; the millions of jobs and billions of dollars refers to a few that had foreign born people but none of them were H1Bs.