H1B Visa - The Truth Is Out There?

Anecdotal comments from some friends that inspire our Nattering....
One of my best friends was talking to the CTO of one of the largest telco companies in the US and he said that they have so many job vacancies in their software division that they can't fill because programmers that used to come from Asia don't want to come to the US anymore especially from predominantly Muslim countries. 
These people have skills if we are talking about a skill based immigration. But they are not white and Christian so I guess there's that!
Qualified Americans – It is very, very hard to find top-level programmers in the US.  I have bought entire companies to get good programmers.  
Mind that the anecdotal commentator, his friend and the CTO are educated and/or intelligent individuals?

I know none of the persons referenced in the anecdotal comment above were making moutarde en la couche back in 1990. So throw out the babes in Toyland or naivete excuse.

We all know it's easy to sometimes get taken in by corporate sponsored MSM propaganda.

As always, when attempting to ascertain motive, opportunity and means, our favorite lex parsimoniae is: its all about the money, never forget it and always follow it.

I'm old enough to remember the halcyon days in the late 70's and early to mid 80's, when Silicon Valley had no problems finding local talent.

Mysteriously, just after 1990, that all changed overnight. How?

Contrary to popular belief, based in urban myth and false doctrine, the best and brightest are NOT necessarily foreigners, and there is NOT any SHORTAGE of domestic STEM candidates.

Said canard has been sold to an unsuspecting public since 1990 when the H1B program started.
"The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous." - Paul Joseph Goebbels - 12 January 1941
Telling a lie enough times doesn’t make it true, period. But, if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.  Sadly true, at least for some.

More to come in What ME Worry? Stay tuned, no flippin.




Recommended reading: The Architects Of Their Own Demise ; H1B Visa and Labor

For those who wish to be informed further, a study published in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Fall 2003, Vol. 36, Issue 4, 815-914. which at 300 pgs, was the most comprehensive done to date.



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