Indian government calls H1B visa fee hike 'discriminatory'

[SpartanDem]

The government of India is protesting a bill in Congress that passed the House Tuesday and the Senate last week that would significantly raise U.S. visa fees for skilled workers.

In a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, India's Commerce Minister Anand Sharma said the bill unfairly targets Indian companies and estimated it would cost the country's firms an extra $200 million a year.

"It is inexplicable to our companies to bear the cost of such a highly discriminatory law," Sharma wrote.

The additional fees from the popular H-1B and L visas programs would be used to build operating bases and deploy unmanned surveillance drones to better secure the U.S.-Mexico border--one of the rare issues both Democrats and Republicans have agreed on.


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-economy/2010/08/indian_government_calls_h1b_vi.html


Yeah it's inexplicable why we would want to make it harder to our jobs to go overseas.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Too damn bad, Government of India.

Find jobs for your own people.

[hayu_lol]

2. The H1B policy is discriminatory...

against American workers. Too bad about India...they need to employ their own people.

[Skittles]

3. boo fucking hoo

go fuck yourselves

[sendero]

4. Fuck you assholes..

.. it is not the function of our country to provide you with jobs. Especially at the expense of our own citizens.

Fuck off.

[Rage for Order]

5. I guess the wrong brown people are getting the jobs

It's bad when Indian brown people come to America, legally, looking for work, but it's double plus good when Mexican brown people come to America, illegally, looking for work. How is that opposition to illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central and South America is racist but opposition to legal immigrants from India is not racist? Is it because Indians can't walk to America so somehow they don't deserve to be here?

[demosincebirth]

6. I never seen an Indian digging a ditch. They come with degrees...

not to take ditch diggers jobs, but to take good paying jobs like many on DU have. Just saying.

[Rage for Order]

7. Construction pays pretty well

Well, it used to pay pretty well. One could make decent money as a carpenter, roofer, hanging drywall, etc. I made okay money as a busboy and, later, as a waiter. Are lower-skilled workers not deserving of the same protections that higher-skilled workers would like to enjoy?

[Hello_Kitty]

8. In both cases, it's so employers can suppress wages. But nice try.

You race-to-the-bottomers aren't fooling anyone.

[Rage for Order]

9. I don't advocate a race to the bottom

I'm consistent in my position that I think our labor force should be protected at both ends of the spectrum

[Hello_Kitty]

10. My bad. Sorry. eom

[SpartanDem]

13. I think some of it stems from

Indians are seen as taking good paying jobs while those from Mexico/C America are not. But you're right that people do seem a lot more willing excuse those from Mexico if this were an article about deportation there talk how "mean" the US was in enforcing it's immigration laws.

[nemo137]

11. The government of India has domestic policy, too.

Sometimes, it conflicts with ours. Nothing to be done for it.

[ibegurpard]

12. are you FUCKING KIDDING ME???

fuck him!