http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/immigration-reform-splits-tech-industry-afflicted-by-outsourcing.html
As both worker and boss, Neeraj Gupta has profited from the H-1B U.S.
immigration program.
The visa, intended for skilled workers, allowed him to stay in the U.S.
after earning a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the
University of Alabama in 1991. Later, the H-1B provided a steady supply of
foreign-born employees for a technology-services company where he worked as
an executive.
Today, Gupta is an outspoken critic of the program that helped start his
career and that technology moguls, including Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s Bill
Gates and Facebook Inc. (FB)’s Mark Zuckerberg, want Congress to expand.
“Somewhere along the way, the program’s been hijacked,” says Gupta, 45,
chief executive officer of Systems in Motion, a closely held company based
in Newark, California.
As lawmakers consider the first major overhaul of U.S. immigration law since
1986, the high-technology industry is divided over the H-1B program. While
both industry leaders and startups seek the world’s most innovative
thinkers, outsourcing firms, hired by corporate clients to help cut costs,
got more than half the 85,000 visas available last year.
Gupta, a native of India who’s now a U.S. citizen, says the H-1B is leading
to “economic abuse.” Outsourcing companies -- such as Cognizant Technology
Solutions Corp. (CTSH) and Infosys Ltd. (INFO) -- use the program to import
thousands of lower-paid information- technology workers instead of employing
Americans, even as the program fails to meet the talent demand at firms such
as Google Inc. (GOOG) and Facebook, he says.
His company -- using American workers based in Ann Arbor, Michigan --
competes against the outsourcing companies.
[...]
Eric Lehti wrote:
Who's Hiring H-1B Visa Workers? Not Microsoft or Google, but
offshore-outsourcing firms are
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/04/03/176134694/Whos-Hir
ing-H1-B-Visa-Workers-Its-Not-Who-You-Might-Think
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