Comment by supercanuck | Hacker News Reader

Comment by supercanuck | Hacker News Reader

Look its no accident that the Top 3 H1-B Employers is on the low end of the salary scale.

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2014-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx

If these jobs are paying the $60-70K Range, to me there is no reason why a College Graduate from an American Computer Science or Information Systems cannot perform these jobs.

IMO, end clients such as Fortune 500 are simply using the Cognizant's, Infosys etc. of the world, as a "Flexible Workforce" or "Onshoring Model" in lieu of actually hiring and training employees.

In my view, they should allow these otherwise H1-B's access to a visa that isn't tied to an employer, so they can seek competitive wages and allow them to compete openly without the prospect them being deported be a drag on their salary, or cut down the H1-B's entirely. Either way, I believe is difficult for Americans to compete.

We can talk special privileges for "startups" but as long as it takes $500 on incorporate.com to create a company, the system will be abused.

And yet the word h1-B doesn't even appear in the article, sigh.

Let me guess. You didn't even read the article and simply did ctrl+f h1-B, which didn't give you any results, because it's a typo.

I did read it, and I thought it doesn't even deserve to be called journalism. They only reference people currently going through the immigration process, and employers. What do you think their perspective is going to be? They even included a quote from an employer claiming that he hires 10 Americans for every immigrant, without any quantification, clarification or investigation, let alone analysis on whether or not that is common for technology firms (it isn't). For all we know, all 10 hired people don't make a combined salary of the single imported worker. They then left an unsourced quote as the very last line of the article claiming that the new measure would not in any way be related to wage suppression.

When I worked for actual worker's rights, in another lifetime, whenever a PR firm hired out journalists to write a hit piece on our organization they would write articles of this quality. Selectively choosing interviewees to meet a predefined viewpoint, skipping over flashpoint words, presenting only one viewpoint without analysis, and then as a buried lead, dismiss potential opposition worries as far below the fold as possible.

> They then left an unsourced quote as the very last line of the article

The article stated the source of that quote:

"Carl Guardino, chief executive of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which represents most of the region’s large tech companies"

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