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Re:Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program by ojbyrne on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:44PM (#10542344)
Which is not actually a loophole, it's illegal. If a job is substantially different from what it was supposed to be, you're supposed to get it reclassified.
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Re:Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program by Lawtonfogle on Thursday November 12, 2015 @10:24AM (#10553663)
Illegal actions become a loophole when the means of enforcing the law is far too weak to catch most attempts at breaking them.

Imagine if the only punishment for theft was having to pay back 200% of what you stole. As long as you don't get caught half the time, it is profitable to steal. That would be both something which is illegal and also a loop hole in the law.

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Re:Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program by ojbyrne on Thursday November 12, 2015 @12:59PM (#10554825)
Sure, I understand that lack of enforcement is the issue, but technically that is not a loophole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loophole :

"In a loophole, a law addressing a certain issue exists, but the law can be legally circumvented due to a technical defect in the said law"

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