Rep. Tim Griffin to Introduce High-Skilled Immigrant Bill

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Companies ruined or almost ruined by imported Indian labor
Adaptec - Indian CEO Subramanian Sundaresh fired.
AIG (signed outsourcing deal in 2007 in Europe with Accenture Indian frauds, collapsed in 2009)
AirBus (Qantas plane plunged 650 feet injuring passengers when its computer system written by India disengaged the auto-pilot).
Apple - R&D CLOSED in India in 2006.
Australia's National Australia Bank (Outsourced jobs to India in 2007, nationwide ATM and account failure in late 2010).
Bell Labs (Arun Netravalli took over, closed, turned into a shopping mall)
Boeing Dreamliner ES software (written by HCL, banned by FAA)
Bristol-Myers-Squibb (Trade Secrets and documents stolen in U.S. by Indian national guest worker)
Caymas - Startup run by Indian CEO, French director of dev, Chinese tech lead. Closed after 5 years of sucking VC out of America.
Caterpillar misses earnings a mere 4 months after outsourcing to India, Inc.
Circuit City - Outsourced all IT to Indian-run IBM and went bankrupt shortly thereafter.
ComAir crew system run by 100% Indian IT workers caused the 12/25/05 U.S. airport shutdown when they used a short int instead of a long int
Computer Associates - Former CEO Sanjay Kumar, an Indian national, sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for accounting fraud.
Deloitte - 2010 - this Indian-packed consulting company is being sued under RICO fraud charges by Marin Country, California for a failed solution.
Dell - call center (closed in India)
Delta call centers (closed in India)
Fannie Mae - Hired large numbers of Indians, had to be bailed out. Indian logic bomb creator found guilty and sent to prison.
Goldman Sachs - Kunil Shah, VP & Managing Director - GS had to be bailed out by US taxpayers for $550 BILLION.
GM - Was booming in 2006, signed $300 million outsourcing deal with Wipro that same year, went bankrupt 3 years later
HP - Got out of the PC hardware business in 2011 and can't compete with Apple's tablets. HP was taken over by Indians and Chinese in 2001. So much for 'Asian' talent!
HSBC ATMs (software taken over by Indians, failed in 2006)
Intel Whitefield processor project (cancelled, Indian staff canned)
JetStar Airways computer failure brings down Christchurch airport on 9/17/11. JetStar is owned by Quantas - which is know to have outsourced to India, Inc.
Lehman (Jasjit Bhattal ruined the company. Spectramind software bought by Wipro, ruined, trashed by Indian programmers)
Medicare - Defrauded by Indian national doctor Arun Sharma & wife in the U.S.
Microsoft - Employs over 35,000 H-1Bs. Stock used to be $100. Today it's lucky to be over $25. Not to mention that Vista thing.
MIT Media Lab Asia (canceled)
MyNines - A startup founded and run by Indian national Apar Kothari went belly up after throwing millions of America's VC $ down the drain.
Nomura Securities - (In 2011 "struggling to compete on the world stage"). No wonder because Jasjit Bhattal formerly of failed Lehman ran it. See Lehman above.
PeopleSoft (Taken over by Indians in 2000, collapsed).
PepsiCo - Slides from #1 to #3 during Indian CEO Indra Nooyi' watch.
Polycom - Former senior executive Sunil Bhalla charged with insider trading.
Qantas - See AirBus above
Quark (Alukah Kamar CEO, fired, lost 60% of its customers to Adobe because Indian-written QuarkExpress 6 was a failure)
Rolls Royce (Sent aircraft engine work to India in 2006, engines delayed for Boeing 787, and failed on at least 2 Quantas planes in 2010, cost Rolls $500m).
SAP - Same as Deloitte above in 2010.
Singapore airlines (IT functions taken over in 2009 by TCS, website trashed in August, 2011)
Skype (Madhu Yarlagadda fired)
State of Indiana $867 million FAILED IBM project, IBM being sued
State of Texas failed IBM project.
Sun Micro (Taken over by Indian and Chinese workers in 2001, collapsed, had to be sold off to Oracle).
UK's NHS outsourced numerous jobs including health records to India in mid-2000 resulting in $26 billion over budget.
Union Bank of California - Cancelled Finacle project run by India's InfoSys in 2011.
United - call center (closed in India)
Victorian Order of Nurses, Canada (Payroll system screwed up by SAP/IBM in mid-2011)
Virgin Atlantic (software written in India caused cloud IT failure)
World Bank (Indian fraudsters BANNED for 3 years because they stole data).
I could post the whole list here but I don't want to crash any servers.

Wakjob of CA 11:30PM January 14, 2012

The writer of this article does not mention the downside of keeping educated immigrants. There is no allegiance to present American graduates.
What of American students in the fields of IT, Math, Physics, Engineering, and Chemistry? According to a comment in a current Business Week article (November 2, 2011): American students have less reason to go for these kind of STEM degrees because, for the past several years, corporations are mostly giving only pro forma interviews to American college graduates, and then hiring immigrant graduates who will work for a mere fraction of the amount of money the American graduate would expect.
No longer in America is there "Buy American;" Live American;" "Hire American'" Pledge Allegiance to America; I might mention that America is, however, still not adverse to expecting American soldiers to "Die American."
Now American citizens are faced with a World Economy, and with little preparatory warning of this coming World Economy. American students are presently faced with the fact that American corporations who hire workers are interested in larger profits, not in paying out large sums of money for American graduates' expertise.
Retaining Immigrant graduates who expect far less of income than American graduates, mean greater corporate profits. So a corporation's motto is now: "Hire Immigrants," not "Hire Americans."
As I have mentioned many times in previous comments, do NOT expect SCOTUS's "Corporate Citizens" to be American Patriots; American Patriotism cannot possibly hold a candle to increasing corporate profits.

ann keenan of MI 1:40AM December 27, 2011

I agree with the congress-critter. US tax-victims should not be forced to subsidize so many low-quality foreign students. They should be capped at 50K per year, and only the very best admitted. They should have to have test scores in the top percentile and be subject to penalties if they export intellectual property or US national security information or products.
Of course, we should also take reasonable and prudent measures to reduce illegal immigration and visa over-stays, reduce the vastly excessive exchange visa programs, reduce the hideously, viciously excessive guest-work visa programs, and reduce the green card programs by at least half. Visa waiver programs should be terminated and every applicant must pay for (along with sponsors) and pass a proper background investigation. Visas of every kind should be reduce to manageable levels so that the current system of rubber-stamping over 95% of applicants can be replaced with a more conscientious system.

jgo of FL 4:01PM December 15, 2011

if their own economies have developed, they will buy their own goods and services.

sarah of LA 3:04PM December 15, 2011

The best thing we can do for these graduates is send them home — not just to compete with America — but to help develop their own economies so they can purchase American goods and services. That is real way to create American jobs.

Durant E. James of IN 2:21PM December 15, 2011