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[quote=Anonymous]I stated this in another thread...

I have worked for silicon valley tech companies for 20 years.

During the tech boom in the early 90s, it was hard for tech companies to find skill workers.  They were desperate, and that's when h1s really started to growin SV.   H1 workers were paid equal to American workers for the same skillset. I know of one who came from Europe and was the highest paid worker I came across in our field.

Fast forward several years, and countries that did not have a sizeable workforce like Poland, India, the Philippines, now do have a good sized educated workforce, and their cost of living is waaay cheaper than here.

Why wouldn't companies be attracted to offshoring? They get "good enough" workers for lower pay.

While there are some very talented H1 workers here, the majority that I have worked with aren't that talented, and I would say some have been very average to below average.  But, they are willing to work for less than an American worker, and they are tied to the company or else they lose their visa.  So, again, why wouldn't this be attractive to companies.

Dems are ignorant, and listen to the execs about how they can't find American workers to fill the jobs.  But, Rs are insidious because they may know what's happening, but Trump will make sure that the thousands of H1s that Amazon and Oracle have applied for (even as they have laid off thousands) get approved.

I don't blame the visa workers. I blame greedy corporations and the politicians  (Trump) who are financed by these execs (Ellison and Bezos).

FWIW, my kid is a CS major.[/quote]

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