H1-B VISAS are being handed out like cotton candy at a football game, and there is no rhyme or reason to it except that people are making money from it. When unemployment was non-existant nobody cared, including myself, but during hard times it is crazy. There is double digit unemployment among IT workers, and yet the h1 visas are flowing like crazy for IT workers. When you throw in the effects of outsourcing to places like India, there is total devastation going on in the labor market. The government is obviously turning a blind eye to the whole thing, not even the democrats are seizing this issue, obviously a lot of people are getting paid off in congress. The american government is not taking care of its people in this regard and the voters need to start screaming.
The giant social security machine needs fresh meat for the mill, and us "born here" citizens aren't pinching out enough babies.
It is for your own good. The government wouldn't do anything that is not in the best interests of the people. Your criticism is not welcomed in these dangerous times - what are you, French? Someone call ashcroft....
Maybe they have skills sets which the locals don't, which is about the only way they can get an H1... It's sound business practice dude... otherwise known as value for money... we are living in a GLOBALIZED world... in such a scenerio, its give and take not just take and take... get real, get GLOBAL!!! yeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaa!!