No matter what Mulford says, H1B restrictions will soon be totally illegal

[OhioChick]

Tania Solanki
Feb. 15, 2009


The US economy is in deep depression. The economy is shrinking at a rate never seen before in the last 100 years. The Dow is headed for 1,000. The unemployment is at much above 15% although the US Government is in a state of denial. Underemployment has paralyzed 80% of the population.

H1B will be a thing of past within a few years. It will be completely illegal within a few years as US plunges into an economic catastrophe.

The state of denial continues. The US on Sunday said there should be no cause for concern over the Congress decision barring firms receiving bailout money from hiring foreigners through H-1B visas, bulk of which is accounted for by Indian professionals, saying it is a “temporary political thing.”

"I think that’s a temporary political thing...H1B visas will remain intact and they will continue to be heavily used,” US Ambassador to India David C Mulford said when asked by reporters for his response to a Congress rider to the stimulus package on bailed out companies disallowed from replacing laid off locals with H-1B workers.

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/20508.asp

[ChromeFoundry]

1. I don't think it will be "soon".

there are too many corporations making profit off the system right now to have it end without a blood-knuckled fight.

[OhioChick]

3. I don't buy the illegal BS, either. n/t

[MADem]

2. It will never be "illegal"--the idea behind it is to find workers with particular skills that aren't

readily available here. It hasn't really been used that way, but that's the intent.

What if, suddenly, there's a massive demand for, oh, roof thatchers? Or any oddball job? They aren't going to "outlaw" using worker visas to get those assets here.

What they'll do is use it as an economic "force shaper" of sorts. The number of visas granted will contract in a worsening economy. They'll increase in a robust economy. It's not a "political" thing (well, it is when you look at it from an international perspective, specifically relations with India--but less so if you look at the domestic component) so much as it is an economic thing.

[MrModerate]

4. Umm . . . making up your own numbers . . .

To justify a sky-is-falling rant is not a reliable path to credibility.

Even if you do have something meaningful to say, people will just blow you off as hysterical.

[OhioChick]

5. I do like to read foreign perspectives regarding our economic situation here. n/t

[MrModerate]

7. I agree. A wide range of opinion is, on the whole, a good thing.

Which is why I find my point of view as an expatriate American often brings additional input to debates.

[thunder rising]

6. WTF, why should American college grads be able to get ahead ...