Comments on: H-1B Visas: Look to Small Town America Before Bangalore

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:56:41 +0000

I do not think that the United States really does have a short amount of high-tech workers. The question becomes how do they compare with other countries. Sadly they do not. If you go to any university and see the makeup of the science and engineering classes, the foreign students are prevalent and they tend to excel at the expense of their US, born and raised, fellow students. Your comment about limiting foreign students is alike to limiting immigation. In reading your profile, this would exclude you from being in the US. Your comment is typical of US mentality of blaming someone else. This situation was self created and now the price is being paid.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:30:20 +0000

Rudolf
The topic is truly profound and hard to trivialize in a blog comment. Jobs equal future (earnings) and lives of people. It is hard for one to guess about the ‘critical’ shortage of hi-tech workers in the US since there is enough data and statistics to argue one way or the other and in most discussions, a personal bias does creep in.
This said, by closing the borders to prospective hi-tech immigrants, the US policy is creating a breed of smart folks who can beat the system. Case in point is Microsoft, that announced a development center in Vancouver last year. Did you know that Canada, north of the border, does not have numerical limits on work visas. And after moving to work and gaining immigrant status, foreign-born workers can naturalize (get Canadian Passports) in just over three years? And with a Canadian passport, they can legally walk across the border, thanks to T1 work visas on which there are no limits? Don’t you think Microsoft lawyers are smart?

By: Miranda

Miranda — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:06:58 +0000

It is too bad that we are looking overseas more and more for workers. A new spirit of innovation and new thinking is needed by companies to turn things around — and that can best be done by integrating creative American workers back into the equation.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:41:37 +0000

sadly, even if congress and industry ‘woke up’ and did a 180 degree turn from this point forward, there’s nothing they could say that would make me believe them to the point of recomending this field to a young person
You can only lie so many times, and screw people only so hard before your credibility is completely gone
congress and industry took a baseball bat to the American tech worker, and they did it for 10 years solid. And this last month was a total blitz in those efforts, including homeland security