[Jumper]

Several indicators of a perception problem there:

- California
- Democrat terror-itory
- Monlolpy-minded Americans can't stand the competition and probably were not competitive in the work place.

[sarcasm]

Yep, it has absolutely nothing to do with paying lower salaries.

[glorgau]

Yeah, but it's true. The Indians hang together tight. They aren't smarter, but they do have their own cliche.

[eno_]

In most cases I would agree with you. Old white guys with bad polyester pants maintaining crappy old mainframe code are sitting ducks for cost reductions. But Sun replacing R&D engineers who, at Sun, are supposedly an elite group, is probably visa abuse and/or race discrimination, if the allegations are true. Sun has been squeezed pretty hard by Linux, which has knocked the stuffing out of everthing but the biggest corporate servers. So it is plausible that Sun would try to push down salary costs this way.

[grania]

Companies say that H-1B visas provide well-trained workers who have skills that are hard to find in the domestic labor force. But US workers say that at a time of high unemployment among American engineers and computer programmers, the H-1B program is mainly being used to bring in cheaper workers from overseas

Do you really think that there are no US workers to fill these jobs? In the Boston area, the problem is immense. Very well qualified techies, who in many cases put systems in place, are losing their jobs to Indian workers.

The H-1B visa program was supposed to be used to fill worker shortages. Qualified US workers should be allowed to claim those jobs filled by foreign labor, and those laborers should be sent home. There is no shortage. Face it.