Hard to make sense when you're arguing both sides
A U.S. Senate committee voted in March to increase the annual cap for H-1B visas from 65,000 to 115,000, amid renewed debate over whether technology companies are using the program to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labor.So we need to program to attract the best and brightest for high-level positions. And research that shows they're being underpaid isn't valid, because it's comparing entry-level foreign hires to experienced U.S. workers. But, they said they needed high-skilled workers, didn't they? So why do they keep wasting their quotas on entry-level people? Something doesn't sound kosher here ...
The cap increase, which would allow technology companies to hire more foreign workers for hard-to-fill technology jobs such as programming ...
Technology companies such as Microsoft Corp. have called on Congress to increase the cap, saying they often can't find qualified U.S. workers to fill high-level tech jobs ...
U.S. businesses should have access to the best and brightest workers in the world ...
According to a recent survey by the Society for Information Management, technology executives are concerned about the supply of workers who can fill entry-level programmer and systems analyst positions, as well as midlevel jobs such as architects and project managers ...
The H-1B program requires companies to pay the prevailing wage to IT workers, but John Miano, a computer programmer for 18 years, told the subcommittee that according to his research, companies paid foreign programmers $13,000 less than the median wage in the areas in which the companies were located. A recent study by the Center for Immigration Studies reached a similar conclusion.
Stuart Anderson, executive director of the National Foundation for American Policy, a think tank focusing on trade and immigration issues, disputed Miano's research, saying the wages of entry-level H-1B hires can't be accurately compared with those of experienced IT workers.
