The Senate immigration bill is calling for 1 million employment visas per year. "The 1 million inflow would provide companies with almost one foreign worker for every four Americans who turn 18."
http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/05/i...ort-1-million-workers-per-year/#ixzz2Pk9YkvKw
Very often you hear America needs more visas for more engineers etc. However it seems even current visa quotas are not being filled by engineers etc but by people working to transfer jobs out of America.
"If you scroll through the government's visa data, you notice something surprising. The biggest employer of foreign tech workers is not Microsoft - not by a long shot. Nor is it Google, Facebook or any other name-brand tech company. The biggest users of H-1Bs are consulting companies, or as Ron Hira calls them, "offshore-outsourcing firms."
"The top 10 recipients in [the] last fiscal year were all offshore-outsourcers. And they got 40,000 of the 85,000 visas - which is astonishing," he says.
Hira's a professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He's also the son of Indian immigrants and has a personal interest in questions of labor flow across borders.
For the past decade, he's been studying how consulting firms use temporary work visas to help American companies cut costs. He says they use the visas to supply cheaper workers here, but also to smooth the transfer of American jobs to information-technology centers overseas.
"What these firms have done is exploit the loopholes in the H-1B program to bring in on-site workers to learn the jobs [of] the Americans to then ship it back offshore," he says. "And also to bring in on-site workers who are cheaper on the H-1B and undercut American workers right here."
The biggest user of H-1B last year was Cognizant, a firm based in New Jersey. The company got 9,000 new visas. Following close behind were Infosys, Wipro and Tata ‑‑ all Indian firms. They're not household names, but they loom large in tech places like the Seattle suburbs"
"Who's Hiring H-1B Visa Workers? It's Not Who You Might Think"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechcon...H1-B-Visa-Workers-Its-Not-Who-You-Might-Think
I hardly see a need for 10 skilled million foreign workers over the next decade. Maybe if 1 in 5 boys at home wasn't being labeled ADHD and discouraged from going to college the US wouldn't have the education issues it has. The largest growing college majors after 2007 were were parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/05/i...ort-1-million-workers-per-year/#ixzz2Pk9YkvKw
Very often you hear America needs more visas for more engineers etc. However it seems even current visa quotas are not being filled by engineers etc but by people working to transfer jobs out of America.
"If you scroll through the government's visa data, you notice something surprising. The biggest employer of foreign tech workers is not Microsoft - not by a long shot. Nor is it Google, Facebook or any other name-brand tech company. The biggest users of H-1Bs are consulting companies, or as Ron Hira calls them, "offshore-outsourcing firms."
"The top 10 recipients in [the] last fiscal year were all offshore-outsourcers. And they got 40,000 of the 85,000 visas - which is astonishing," he says.
Hira's a professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He's also the son of Indian immigrants and has a personal interest in questions of labor flow across borders.
For the past decade, he's been studying how consulting firms use temporary work visas to help American companies cut costs. He says they use the visas to supply cheaper workers here, but also to smooth the transfer of American jobs to information-technology centers overseas.
"What these firms have done is exploit the loopholes in the H-1B program to bring in on-site workers to learn the jobs [of] the Americans to then ship it back offshore," he says. "And also to bring in on-site workers who are cheaper on the H-1B and undercut American workers right here."
The biggest user of H-1B last year was Cognizant, a firm based in New Jersey. The company got 9,000 new visas. Following close behind were Infosys, Wipro and Tata ‑‑ all Indian firms. They're not household names, but they loom large in tech places like the Seattle suburbs"
"Who's Hiring H-1B Visa Workers? It's Not Who You Might Think"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechcon...H1-B-Visa-Workers-Its-Not-Who-You-Might-Think
I hardly see a need for 10 skilled million foreign workers over the next decade. Maybe if 1 in 5 boys at home wasn't being labeled ADHD and discouraged from going to college the US wouldn't have the education issues it has. The largest growing college majors after 2007 were were parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies.
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