Allowing body shops to sponsor H1B visas is ridiculous and directly leads to this kind of exploitation. Requiring the place where the person actually works to sponsor instead would make so much more sense.
Of course simple reforms like this can never happen because the current debate on immigration in the US is 100% closed borders vs. 100% open borders so the broken status quo continues on.
The governments make money (guest workers pay taxes and send remittances home), the companies make money and don’t get grief for offshoring, the wages for low/moderate tech skills are suppressed, and the worker gets screwed.
Are you referring to the guest worker here, or the general labor class in the host country? I'd imagine the former gets a substantial net benefit too, relative to the counterfactual in which he's making domestic country wages that are a tiny fraction of his remittance + consumption.
When I was consulting (not IT), my billable rate was $250/hr and I made $65/hr.
These IT consulting firms should be paying the prevailing wage set out in the H1-B application. If they aren’t they should be prosecuted.
Of course, Trump’s utter indifference, actually attempts to make immigration worse both for immigrants and citizens, was completely predictable.
Yeah, right lmao