http://www.firstpost.com/world/h1b-extensions-on-the-chopping-block-4282721.html
Over the last 10 years - from 2007 to 2017, Indians have taken the lion’s share of H1B visa approvals every single year followed by China in second place and Canada third. Indians have got a total of 2,237,478 H1B visas from 2007-2017 and 302,293 in 2017 alone
Perhaps MIGA should be MIG
A implies Again
Not sure if infrastructure build by the British counts as greatness
At least in the semiconductor engineering side of the biz h1bs aren’t at all holding down the salaries, unless you count 125k starting salaries and several experienced I have hired at 170k+ lately.
Which is fine. Oracle is heading south in the office.
Plus H1-Bs are brought for projects that for one reason or another are not offshored. There is only one reason for H1-Bs, to keep wages down.
Having them here working for slave wages and living 10 to an apartment allows control. Having them overseas doesn’t as the failure of countless outsourced projects shows.
Ok, so instead of bringing them here where they live and pay taxes, the jobs will just be shipped overseas.