[angkor]

Too much to say about this, but it's too early.

The sense of entitlement that Indians have toward American visas and citizenship is staggering.

And the H1B visa program is greatly abused by employers largely to the benefit of Indian tech workers. I have seen this personally, there are just too many stories to recount. I'd be happy if H1B visas were shut down forever.

Read the article for some choice quotes, even Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders is in there, with a barbed comment by the Post reporter.

[Mr. K]

The quality of H1-B workers has dropped dramatically too, once we scraped the cream of the crop- now we get tose who feel ‘entitled’ to an american job.

Just like anyone else on an entitlement program, they don’t feel the need to actually do anything.

H1-B are killing amercian tech workers

[Joe Boucher]

Here we allow any freak show who claims harassment in their own country to come here. Yet if you are say a valuable immigrant like say a guy with a master’s degree in electrical engineering?
Nahhhh, we’re saving those slots for other freaks shows.
Educated and valuable and a contributing member of society need not apply.
Cuban crazies and killers just step on our soil.
Mexican, Guats and Hondurans uneducated step right this way

[LibLieSlayer]

America for Americans... the Indians are good people and are lucky to have gotten so many of their brothers and sisters into our nation. The time is now to shut the door until grownups can rewrite our immigration laws and limit our immigration to maintain our way of life. We are not the repository for the World's losers... hate to be that way but we just need to be like every other nation in the World... protect our own FIRST!

LLS

[mbraynard]

The sense of entitlement that Indians have toward American visas and citizenship is staggering.

Here's a thought - eliminate the program.

And replace it with a fast-track to citizenship for individuals with advanced degrees earned either oversees or a simple undergrad degree earned here in the states.

These people are an asset. Make them take an oath of allegiance, integrate them (Indians integrate pretty well and are fantastic workers), and put them to work.

This might surprise you, but the wealthiest ethnic demo in the states isn't Jews - it's Indians (dot, not feather).

[dawn53]

I’d like to see them do away with the program. People say we don’t have high quality US workers, but that’s not the issue. Employers take advantage of lower wages and the fact that a H1B visa holder can’t change jobs if someone offers a high salary elsewhere.

I know one young man who’s looking for an engineering internship for the summer (he’s at GATech)...many programs are cancelling their summer internship programs because of the slowdown. My kid’s about to finish his master’s and jobs are few and far between (compared to last year this time)...so why not give jobs to US citizens.

[elli1]

Nations such as Canada, Singapore and Australia have created "fast-track" immigration policies and incentives to attract foreign professionals.

So, seems obvious to me that they need to look for jobs in Canada, Singapore & Australia.

[Non-Sequitur]

If I’m reading the story correctly, ol’ Ravi was caught up in the economic downturn and not any limit on H-1Bs. The position he was being considered for was eliminated and not filled by another. Hard times are hard times for all, there isn’t any racial factor in this.

[RU88]

Sounds like you have knowledge in this area. My question concerns the availability of American hi-tech workers to fill these positions. Are there enough Americans qualified to fill these spots and if so why are these visas being given out at all? My point being that I can understand visas if we have a shortage of qualified workers in given areas but not at the expense of available American workers.

[Wpin]

I have had the pleasure of hiring two H1B candidates. One from India and the other from Ghana. They were great employees, courteous, thoughtful and absolutely brilliant.

I paid them what I would have paid anyone else with same skill sets. Overall, it was a great experience and I would do it again in a minute.

Neither gentlemen wanted to become American citizens, they were proud of their own countries and of their families, friends, and countrymen. Both, went back home after a couple years to help bring prosperity to their homelands. Not a bad thing at all if you really stop and think about it.

Note of interest; the fellow from Ghana related to me that his country had been and was still transitioning itself from socialist to a free market economy and that it was good for the people. Indeed, last I heard (within past month) Ghana was still a growing economy...

[wolfcreek]

Boo Hoo. Sorry Indians, this well has run dry.

Try learning to speak coherent English while you're waiting.

[bcsco]

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[Roses0508]

I’ve worked with Indian tech workers for many years. Early on they truely were the cream of the crop and their abilities and willingness to work paved the way for thousands upon thousands of their countrymen.

Here’s my problem. I was working for a Fortune 400 company. They needed to adjust the bottom line. So they laied off all the programmers and analysts for their mainframe solutions and hired an Indian “partner” (one that is now famous because its financial assets proved to be bogus). The Indian partner would rotate a team of programmers in to write the code for a software update and then rotate the team out before the code went live. When the update blew up (as it did every single time), the original coders were back in India and the few legacy employees were left trying to fix the code live. After awhile they quit trying to fix it and just rolled it back. After a year and a half, most of the software updates had NOT happened and all of the legacy employees had quit. Now said company is desparately trying to hire American workers again (preferably those people they laid off that have knowledge of their systems).

While hiring the Indian partern adjusted the bottom line for a couple of quarters, ultimately it cost the company money and customers because they were not able to meet deadlines to make software updates to support new products.

The cream of the crop was certainly not available for that project.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[ScottfromNJ]

“And the H1B visa program is greatly abused by employers largely to the benefit of Indian tech workers”

Heavy recruitment from Asia too.

[sarasmom]

Backlash, payback...call it what you want.

The greedy blackmailers working IT during the less than stellar hours before the whole “Y2K = end of the world as we know it scam” made a whole lot of techies rich.
It also made a lot of CEOs and millions of us “ignorant” non-IT worker types livid.

We eventually learned how easy it was to do a “hard shutdown” and fix the durned typewriter/file system on steroids ourselves.

Yes, I know programmers and other “IT Professionals” have defined skills I have not acquired.

Do “they” know “we” can learn, and will refuse to be held hostage again by a small group of computer code nerds?

No sympathy for the IT field from this quarter.
Now the people who can keep the electricity and water flowing through the lines to my home and business, those blue collar people who have physical and mental skill sets most people are unable to rapidly duplicate...those are the people who will never be outsourced.

Funny how during every emergency, those people show up and just do their jobs.