H1B is supposed to bring in talent from all over the world to help build and grow the USA which is founded on immigration. without it, the US would probably be filled with american indians and some eskimos only!? i think if you work hard and prove yourself consistently, there is no reason you should be afraid of the threat of H1B-visas!
But this is not what the H1B program is used for - it's consistently used to add staff, at lower wages, to prevent wage inflation.
Guys take a look at link below for latest H1B and Green Cards reports along with salary trends http://tinyurl.com/79hqhoz
http://www.kauffman.org/research-an...-1996-2010.aspx Here is, to me, a very interesting excerpt: " One rule, which is a perennial issue we raise at the Foundation, is to reform U.S. immigration laws so that more high-skilled immigrants can launch businesses in the United States. Kauffman research shows that immigrants are disproportionately likely to start a businessâindeed, roughly 25 percent of successful high-tech startups over the last decade were founded or co-founded by immigrants (Figure 4). Highly educated immigrants want to come to the United States because ours is a nation in which science can flourish and ingenuity can be rewarded. But today the worldâs budding entrepreneurs have more options when choosing a homeâas India, China, Brazil, and others catch up to the United States in terms of available capital, labor, and opportunity. Immigration restrictions that limit the number of highly skilled people permitted to enter the United States to work or start a business serve no purpose other than to stifle growth."
Sure, now you care. You mocked the textile workers when their jobs were taken, and happily bought up cheap tshirts made by Bangladeshi child labor. You scoffed at the UAW and other union schmucks who did a marvelous job holding onto their jobs far longer than anyone could have imagined, and happily scarfed up Toyotas and Hondas and Lexii and Acurii. But now that it's your neck on the line, now suddenly you "care". Too. Damn. Late.
yeah. how come we ignore the NAFTA. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/nafta-job-loss-trade-deficit-epi_n_859983.html we cud have kept millions of jobs in US.. paying 40-50K. range. ok. our purchasing power wud have been cringed... goods wud have costed 20% more. or so... but atleast folks would have jobs as someone said.. with all the outsourcing. there will be CEOs and cab drivers left in America..
Given that that is the case, I always thought it was, isn't it odd that the Asians had HD TV 20 years before we did? And I heard they lead in vending machine technology and led in cell phones for a while too (don't know if that's true). And of course the U.S. badly lags the entire industrialized world in high speed rail.