[ARE SOLE]

Deport them to mexico.

Regards

[BlazingArizona]

We’ve all seen them, haven’t we? Ragged little men showing up at your door, asking, “Fix your router, sir?”

[Greg F]

If you’ve got one penny and you double your money, you’ve still only got two pennies.

[Clemenza]

No surprise. Here in Central New Jersey (which has the highest concentration of East Indians in the western hemisphere), it is very common for siblings and cousins of resident Indians to “overstay” their visas, usually to work for a family business.

[The_Republican]

Jalapeno Curry. Yummmm!

[ought-six]

If they’re here illegally, boot their asses out.

[untrained skeptic]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security estimates that there are 270,000 unauthorized Indian natives in the United States - a 125 percent jump since 2000, the largest percentage increase of any nation with more than 100,000 illegal immigrants in the United States.

H1B visas are for 3 years and extendible to 6 years. My guess is that a lot of relatively skilled Indian workers didn't want to return home when their visas expired. My experience with Indian coworkers a decade ago was somewhat mixed. There were a number of very skilled Indians, and there were quite a few that were pretty much worthless.

It might very well be in our best interest to extend permanent residency to the best of them, but we should ship the rest back home. Immigration can be very valuable to our country, but only when we are selective, and select wisely.

The number of undocumented Indians is dwarfed by the estimated 6.6 million illegal residents from Mexico, according to the estimates from homeland security's Office of Immigration Statistics.

I doubt that more than a tiny portion of them are undocumented. There aren't many Indians sneaking into the US. The come in through documented, legal ways, but they overstay their visas.

After 9/11 we became somewhat better at checking backgrounds on those that come here legally, so there is probably less of a security threat from those overstaying visas that from the undocumented immigrants that sneak across the border, or at least we know more about them.

Since the 9/11 hijackers did come here legally, and while we do better at checking than we did, checking background of people from some countries is nearly an act of futility, they do represent some risk. However, I think our limited resources are better focused on closing the border first and dealing with groups that have a higher percentage of criminal element.

[muawiyah]

At the same time if you need guys to pick apples and are passing out visas for that you might as well recruit Indians and Pakistanis since the odds are incredibly good that they'll have advanced degrees in skill sets we need.

And the Indian guys will be doggone glad for the work ~ particularly in the layoff period between apple sets.

Now, try to get a guy with a Masters in Mexico to do stoop labor ~ fat chance that is.