[Tfug] OT: Proposed increase in H1B visas

[Jim Secan]

The general fear is not that higher skilled people will come in and "take
your job", the fear, real or not (still TBD) is that less skilled people
(or even people with the same skills) will come in and charge a whole lot
less in salary and benefits and drive the price of talent down.  Who's
going to buy someone for $50/hr when they can get "almost the same" for
$20/hr?

Now, I don't know what the real facts are, and I'm not sure if anyone does.
 There are lots of "facts" floating around the blog-o-sphere, but I doubt
that most of it is worth much.  The fear is, however, a glut of people
coming into the country and driving down the salaries.

Jim

At 12:33 PM 03/17/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>Um, ok, I'll bite on this one. I think this bill is fine. If there is 
>skilled labor out there, let's use it. I don't see what the problem is. 
>Are you afraid that someone more skilled is going to come in and take 
>your jobs?
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uORAyORWRAA
>
>C
>
>keith smith wrote:
>>
>> Hi fellow tech people,
>>
>> Seems we have a sort of problem locally with our own congresswoman 
>> Gabrielle Giffords. <http://giffords.house.gov/contact/index.shtml>
>>
>> I first learned of this problem on the PLUG list.
>>
>> Seems she wants to double the amount of H1B visas from 65,000 to 
>> 130,000 per year and remove the student H1B visas from 20,000 to 
>> unlimited.  The legislation would increase the H-1B cap to 180,000 in 
>> 2010 to 2015 if the 130,000 cap is reached the year before.
>>
>> In part the article states:
>>
>> The Innovation Employment Act, introduced by Representative Gabrielle 
>> Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, late Thursday, would increase the cap 
>> in H-1B visas from 65,000 a year to 130,000 a year. In addition, there 
>> would be no cap on H-1B applications for foreign graduate students 
>> attending U.S. colleges and studying science, technology and related 
>> fields. Currently, there's a 20,000-a-year cap on visas for graduate 
>> students in all fields.
>>
>> http://www.cio.com/article/197100/Bill_Would_Double_Cap_on_H_B_Visas
>>
>> I called her office and complained.  I think everyone on the list 
>> should do likewise.  Phone: (520) 881-3588.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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