CW: Here are the biggest H-1B Visa Corporations

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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/424515.cms

I am not suggesting a boycott or anything...

HPS America, Inc.

15,050

Infosys technologies

6,050

Patni Computer Systems

4,371

Accenture LLP

4,284

Ernst & Young

3,923

Satyam Computer Services

3,840

AlphaSoft Services Corporation

3,755

WorkForce Consultants

2,750

InfoTech Service LLC

2,650

Wipro Limited

2,556

Universal Placement Services

2,500

Cognizant Technology Solutions

2,376

Tata Consultancy Services

2,147

Siebel Systems

2,134

Deloitte Consulting

2,122

PricewaterhouseCoopers

2,078

Data Conversion Incorporated

1,932

Hexaware Technologies

1,927

Syntel (India) Ltd

1,900

HCL Technologies America

1,805

Eckerd Corporation

1,790

Deloitte & Touche LLP

1,786

UBICS

1,640

Enterprise Business Solutions

1,581

Microsoft Corporation

1,576

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1. Most of these H-1Bs are them farmed out

Notice that most of the list (with Microsoft a notable exception) are contracting/consulting agencies that turn around and rent these H-1B people out to other companies at exorbitant triple-digit hourly rates.

Sure, these agencies are bringing in the H-1Bs, but a lot of bigger, far more widely known names are actually making use of them -- while rejecting American workers.

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2. but

5 of the top 10 are Indian companies that do nothing but sell Indian labor to American companies. I'd imagine it'd be hard to do that without H1Bs.

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3. I wonder for how many years the # of available H1-B's has been increased

Anyone know where to look for that kind of info? I know it was increased throughout our 'recession', but I wonder when it started to get out of hand...

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4. and here's a "funny" story

First-Generation American's Job Taken ... By His Father

READING, PA—Miguel Martinez, 48, who immigrated to the U.S. 30 years ago, last week lost his leather-cutting job at GST AutoLeather, Inc. to his 66-year-old father Roberto. "I came to this country in 1974 to make a better life for my family," Martinez said Monday. "But in December, they moved the factory where I've been working for 22 years down to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. I love my father, but that goddamn beaner stole my job." Martinez's $18-an-hour duties will now be performed by his father for $7 a day.

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5. "this place sucks"

This is not the same country I remember growing up.

Back then you could find a job, and more than likely you could afford a two bedroom apartment and a car payment plus the insurance.

Going to the doctor was about thirty-five bucks, and a pair of jeans cost about fifteen bucks.

My first house cost thirty-five thousand, and the utility bill was about thirty-five bucks a month.

Gas was about ninety cents per gallon, and I was able to go and buy new bathroom stuff and bedroom stuff for maybe a hundred bucks altogether.

There was no such thing as globalization, although the company I worked for FedEx was hellbent on inventing that theme on their own.

Something has gone terribly wrong with America. Why in God's name do I have to bust my ass to go to school and pay through the nose in dollars in order to compete with some forlorn two-bit sonofabitch who can barely scrape together a couple of nickels to buy a condom who at the age of twenty already has five or six kids and lives off thirty bucks a week?

As far as I am concerned the corporate lifestyle of America is a total sellout, and the politicians in Washington who get their money from them are nothing but hookers.

This place sucks for most of us except those bastards who make the rules that somehow don't apply to them.

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6. kick

:kick: for the night crowd