--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> 
wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> 
wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> 
wrote:
> > > >
> > >  The pundits 
> > > > eventually WILL come to fairfield. I'm going to pass along 
my idea
> > > of billing them as 
> > > > entertainers, which may circumvent any norrmal visa issues. 
> > > 
> > > Or maybe as congressional page candidates.
> > >
> > 
> > Put them down as IIT grads and the US will pay them to come...
> >
> 
> Ah,  the good ole H1B visa issues.
> 
> My favorite example of the corruption surrounding the program is 
when someone put 
> down on the application form that they were importing a bunch of 
computer programmers 
> from India and paying them $4.75/hour and they got approval from 
immigration...
> 
> ...for those who don't know, H1B is a special program to bring in 
technical worker-
> immigrants because there are "not enough" of them in the USA. The 
law says that they 
> must be paid the prevailing US wage for the work that they are 
being asked to do in the 
> USA, which, for computer programmers, is apparently less-than 
minimum wage...
>
Many of them have now left the Bay Area and returned to India where 
they can be employed by US companies off-shoring the jobs they used 
to have here...Seems like a more honest solution anyway.





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