How Immigration Uncertainty Threatens America’s Tech Dominance

Re:How Immigration Uncertainty Threatens America’s Tech Domi... by davidf18 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @01:40PM (#13553175)

Not really, because quality software development generally requires teams to be in close proximity. As has been discovered by many firms, moving operations overseas is "penny wise and pound foolish"

For example, Disney of Florida replaced 250 American IT workers in US using immigrants with H1-B Visas. They in theory could have saved more money by sending that operation overseas but they chose not too.

Computer operations today are way too mission critical to most organizations to risk problems by moving tech overseas at least in operational settings.

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Re:How Immigration Uncertainty Threatens America’s Tech Domi... by gopalv on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:21PM (#13554258)

> using immigrants with H1-B Visas

I think that's the problem here - those on H1-B visas aren't immigrants.

It is a dual intent visa and most outsourcing firms keep it strictly in the non-immigrant category.

Until they get a DoL clearance & get into an I-140 approval process, they're "temporary workers" who can be dispensed with any day.

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