H-1B visa fraud: Sunnyvale man indicted for bringing in 600 workers illegally

Re:H-1B visa fraud: Sunnyvale man indicted for bringing in 6... by broknbottle on Sunday November 11, 2018 @10:52AM (#18426940)

If they end the program, how will the US refill the social security coffers? It's my understanding that h1b1 employees pay into social security just like everybody else but it is likely they will never draw from it. Most Indians I've talked to plan to eventually go back home either due to family or because the wait is astronomically long.

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Re:H-1B visa fraud: Sunnyvale man indicted for bringing in 6... by bdcravens on Sunday November 11, 2018 @01:29PM (#18427759)

There's about 500,000 h1b holders at any given time. That's less than 0.5% of the workforce. Probably a higher percentage paying into Social Security who will die prior to being eligible.

According to this article, about 20% die prior to age 65, and some percentage of those will not have a spouse to provide benefits to:

http://home.bt.com/lifestyle/wellbeing/did-you-know-20-of-me...

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Re:H-1B visa fraud: Sunnyvale man indicted for bringing in 6... by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday November 11, 2018 @11:21AM (#18427095)

The total number of H-1Bs issued since the program's inception is only a couple million and most of those have expired. They don't constitute enough people to make a difference.

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Re:H-1B visa fraud: Sunnyvale man indicted for bringing in 6... by muzz on Sunday November 11, 2018 @01:37PM (#18427787)

Refill? The Social Security surplus is over $2.6 Trillion

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Re:H-1B visa fraud: Sunnyvale man indicted for bringing in 6... by kamaal on Monday November 12, 2018 @05:28AM (#18431700)

Actually no.

>>At the end of 2014, the Trust Fund contained (or alternatively, was owed) $2.79 trillion, up $25 billion from 2013.

>>Trust Fund obligations are considered "intra-governmental" debt, a component of the "public" or "national" debt. As of June 2015, the intragovernmental debt was $5.1 trillion of the $18.2 trillion national debt.

Its still a huge total net negative on the government. And you still desperately need those immigrants to be working 20 hour days doing start ups and build tax paying companies, so that some where some one in mid west can buy an iPhone using SS handouts and scold the immigrants for the very value they provide using that iPhone.

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