Re:Judge sends two to prison for 7 years for H-1B fraud
by selectron on Monday June 06, 2016 @12:35AM
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Yes, I am in favor of companies that are based in the US and take advantage of US infrastructure and tax-payer funding (indirectly and directly) should be hiring US citizens as workers. Anyway you didn't address the point - it is completely wrong to say that these foreign workers are not competing with US workers for the jobs they take. This is just basic supply and demand. Foreign workers are usually willing to take lower salaries and work longer hours than US citizens, which is why companies love to hire them.
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Re:Judge sends two to prison for 7 years for H-1B fraud
by verst on Monday June 06, 2016 @02:45AM
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I'm only talking about the subclass of foreign workers who are educated in the US and already in the country.
They surely would not accept longer working hours or less pay.
I didn't say these graduates aren't competing, merely that in the case above nobody is being replaced (in a literal sense) as these were new positions to be filled. Also, they were not filled under the H-1B program, but the F-1 OPT program.
F-1 OPT (post graduation training) hiring is virtually unrestricted (except for its duration).
Of course workers who reside abroad and are brought to the US on H-1B directly are an entirely different class of foreign workers. I cannot speak to this group.