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We Are Creating a Dependency on H-1B Workers

Thirst for cheaper guest workers is pushing a generation of Americans away from tech fields, enlarging the void

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I used to read a great deal of books but now I surf the internet looking for really good blogs like this one to read. this was a good read thanks!

theseeElimi of MS 6:27AM May 25, 2013

You might want to read:

Bye Bye Engineering

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38064

How Young Engineers and Our Economy Are Betrayed

http://www.creators.com/opinion/phyllis-schlafly/how-young-engineers-and-our-economy-are-betrayed.html

A Worrisome Confrontation

http://www.tbp.org/pages/publications/Bent/Features/Su05Florman.pdf

Why Americans Don’t Study Science—It Doesn’t Pay

http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/050215_nd.htm

and there are more stories of American "Engineered" Job Destruction. but few want to confront realities.

America's Engineered Decline

http://www.rense.com/general68/americasengineered.htm

The Death of U.S. Engineering

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06062006.html

EngiNERD of IL 7:24PM January 02, 2012

Academics are already talking about a PhD glut so why is Congress considering STEM related bills for foreign grads to compete for scarce US jobs. Congress has already passed HR 3012, basically a green card giveaway program for low skilled E3 Indian tech workers and it's currently in the senate. A new report says immigrants create jobs but the last decade has seen the highest immigration in our history coupled with the highest unemployment since the Depression. We already have the immigrants, so where are all the jobs they are creating?

Durant E. James of AZ 4:58PM December 28, 2011

Hiring a local worker requires extensive interviews, this represents a high time/opportunity cost, because engineers are required to do the interviews. Bringing someone in from a foreign office requires just a call to HR. Better yet, have someone in a foreign office do the interviews, and then have your HR get the visa, all at no time cost to local engineering staff. InfoSys is a prime example of a company that follows this exact policy, a heavy user of Visa's to fill (virtually) all U.S. domestic engineering positions. But this pattern repeats itself in our Domestic companies. The fees for visas are small compared to the time savings of hiring a contractor on a visa (a contractor that can be fired immediately, let the agency (really a body-shop) deal with the visa details). Companies must have significant dis-insentive to use the U.S. Visa System as their primary method for finding workers to fill domestic positions. The reason why companies are using up all of the visas (H-1b visa are sold-out as of this month) even with high unemployment, is that visa's are cost effective. Do you have any idea what an engineer, on an H-1b, can make for a body-shop?

jake_leone of CA 3:09PM December 28, 2011