Regardless of unemployment rate, we still can't fill the need for H1-Bs

[thunder rising]

I know we are a stupid people and the H1-Bs are all brilliant. But I have to think that a some point there would be enough American talent to at least reduce the need to import foreign brain power. I mean there is a lot of good American talent on the bench right now.

At first is was just Americans were too stupid to be engineers and scientists and particularly stupid in the field of IT. But now we are too stupid to teach our own children and nurse our sick.

I've never seen the move "Idiocracy" but I had a work pal that loved the movie and from the explanation I think I'm living the movie.

The single best advantage to hiring H1-B is that they can't reject an offer (take what we offer or go home).

H1-Bs are given 3 yr contracts whereas Americans are given 3/6 mo contracts to fill H1-B shortfalls.

ENOUGH!

[47of74]

1. H1-B's should be outlawed altogether

[HillbillyBob]

2. Agreed

The slavers err employers want foreign workers so they can drive down wages.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

3. No, just prosecute visa fraud harshly

The firm I work for has a number of H1B's - but all of them are in extremely internationally oriented roles. US universities don't graduate many French tax accountants or Chinese lawyers. The H1B program used as intended isn't really a problem, the problem is fraud on a massive scale has been virtually ignored.

And the fraud isn't unique to the H1B program, while it doesn't get a tenth of the attention fraud with L1 visas, for which there is no quota, is much, much worse.

Somewhere in India there is a teenager who isn't even shaving yet who is theoretically an employee of one of the large Indian consulting firms so upon graduation he can be shipped over, as a transferred employee immediately.

That is the problem, no matter what stamp happens to be in their passport.