The only real problems with H1Bs are that (a) there aren't nearly enough of them (add a zero to the number available, for starters) and (b) they don't provide a definitive process towards citizenship.
I'll tell you one thing, as someone who has to compete with these people, the whole IT consulting/contracting business has become decidedly like "slave labor". This is much different than 15 years ago when my services were in high demand. Now if I am contracted for 50% of the year, I'm lucky.
Nobody professing belief in free markets can legitimately complain about opening borders to workers. You cannot have sustainable free movement of capital and goods without also allowing free movement of workers.
That's absurd -- or are you posting from an alternate universe that has different physical laws? You can have perfectly free movement of capital and goods with no physical movement of workers whatsoever.
I wish they would accelerate it even further and bring in more of those top engineers, programmers, financiers etc. to US. The only edge we have left over other countries are 1) technology 2) finance and you want these top people to go to China, Brazil etc.? That's absurd!
It is time to watch this video which demonstrates how a Visa law firm teaches U.S. corporations how to place fake newpaper hiring ads to meet government requirements and how to avoid hiring American citizens. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU Quote: "Our goal clearly is not to find a qualified, interested U.S. worker" Overview: Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers. See what Bush and Congress really mean by a "shortage of skilled U.S. workers." Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week.
Unless USA aligns Immigrant & Non-immigrant Visas and Outsourcing to Caste system in India and Human Rights in China, American middle class will be destroyed. http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/sep/29/un-says-indias-caste-system-a-human-rights-abuse.htm http://www.rediff.com/business/slid...forced-to-sign-no-suicide-pledge/20110504.htm