[kabar]

Cheap serf labor. Those here on H1-B visas are sponsored by their employer. If they lose their job, they must leave the country. The employer has much more control over the employee on a temporary work visa. They are virtual serfs—just the way business likes them.

[indthkr]

"Cheap serf labor. Those here on H1-B visas are sponsored by their employer."

Employers will always whine that it's NOT about cheap labor, but I find it facinating how the majority of H1B visas go to Indians and mainland Chinese (cheap labor); rarely do you run into a H1B holder from Japan, Germany, France, Taiwan, Sweden, or the UK.