10% unemployment but H1B visas accelerating

The only real problems with H1Bs are that (a) there aren't nearly enough of them (add a zero to the number available, for starters) and (b) they don't provide a definitive process towards citizenship.
 
Quote from rew:

Ah yes, the standard corporate bullshit. There have been cases where companies have forced their employees to train their own H-1b replacements (otherwise no severance pay), then fired them. Companies hire H-1b labor because it's cheap indentured servitude, not because there aren't Americans able to do the work.
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I'll tell you one thing, as someone who has to compete with these people, the whole IT consulting/contracting business has become decidedly like "slave labor". This is much different than 15 years ago when my services were in high demand. Now if I am contracted for 50% of the year, I'm lucky.
 
Nobody professing belief in free markets can legitimately complain about opening borders to workers.

You cannot have sustainable free movement of capital and goods without also allowing free movement of workers.
 
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Nobody professing belief in free markets can legitimately complain about opening borders to workers.

You cannot have sustainable free movement of capital and goods without also allowing free movement of workers.
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If free markets means that our borders have become meaningless than screw the free market.
 
Quote from Random.Capital:

Nobody professing belief in free markets can legitimately complain about opening borders to workers.

You cannot have sustainable free movement of capital and goods without also allowing free movement of workers.
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That's absurd -- or are you posting from an alternate universe that has different physical laws?

You can have perfectly free movement of capital and goods with no physical movement of workers whatsoever.
 
I wish they would accelerate it even further and bring in more of those top engineers, programmers, financiers etc. to US.
The only edge we have left over other countries are 1) technology 2) finance
and you want these top people to go to China, Brazil etc.? That's absurd!
 
Quote from MohdSalleh:

this is misleading. there is a cap on H1b's every year and every year it is used up whether it goes faster or slower makes no difference. Also, frauds aside, it is actually not that easy to get a H1b, the employer has to certify that no American can do the job
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It is time to watch this video which demonstrates how a Visa law firm teaches U.S. corporations how to place fake newpaper hiring ads to meet government requirements and how to avoid hiring American citizens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU

Quote: "Our goal clearly is not to find a qualified, interested U.S. worker"

Overview: Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers. See what Bush and Congress really mean by a "shortage of skilled U.S. workers." Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week.
 
Quote from dealmaker:

... Perhaps a more appropriate topic would have been why more American teenagers/ college students don't study math and sciences.
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And give up partying, surely you jest. :(
 
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