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Neilsen Media in Florida has taken the H1B Visa to an extreem level of abuse, and this tactic will probably be used by many others if the expansion of the program is allowed.

Neilsen Media is replacing higher paid existing American workers with lower paid contractors from thier Indian contracting partner. These replacement workers will work in the USA on H1B Visas, after being trained by the American workers that they are replacing.

This tactic will allow for corporate entities to lower the standard of living for ALL Americans. American workers have had level wages for the last decade, and now with efforts to expand the H1B Visa program, the Corporate Infrastructure is working to lower those wages through foriegn worker replacements.

I beleive that the H1B Visa program has a place in our society to suplement the intellectual inventory of industries, but the way the program works it is now used to destory the fabric of our middle class working families.

Neilsen is just the beginning, be aware.

There is plenty of talent here in the US.  All the corporations care about is the allmighty dollar.  Bill Gates is one person advocating this but he was never more than an average programmer.  He stole or bought other people's ideas.  That's ok.  Let's sub out Information Technology.  Pretty soon we won't have anyone with IT skills and who knows who will have control of our data.  Some of you who claim to be "smarter" in your posts should go back to school to learn some proper grammer and spelling.  I see a lot of foreigners in my field but don't see many who are supremely "talented" and they have issues communicating.  Furthermore, they seem to struggle to think logically.

It is important to distinguish between givers and takers.

An orange picker that jumps the border from Mexico to work without paying tax is a taker.

A highly skilled IT innovator joining Google in the US will make a contribution to Google US, his/ her co-workers and will pay a significant amount of US taxes. I would class this person as a giver.

Room should always be made for givers and stricter procedures put in place to weed out takers, regardless of their birthplace.

This one-size-fits all policy is far too defensive and will restrict the economic and social development of the US in the long run.

H1-B Visas have brought some very talented people into the country.  After all, India has more honor students than we have students.  But, they are permitted to work only for their sponsoring company for 3 years, extensible to 6, while they wait for their green card.  Green cards now take 6-7 years.  That makes H1-B workers, in effect, indentured servants working for a very low wage. 

As an independent software contractor, I blame this program for making my real wages drop over the past 8 years.  How can native-born software engineers expect to compete on price with slaves?

I say either eliminate H1-B visas or hasten green card processing to  6 months.

All these years we, americans made decissions and killed several people in wars, without any curtosy, its the curse today we are facing. Any how let me not talk about the Luck or Spirtual.

Most of Amercican products and innovations are always bought from outside the country.

Its not just cheap labour or cheap work.

If google spend $1000 to build a product and outside other company builds it for $100 and income on that is $400 when will google make its investment.

Its not about the nation or a single person.

Would we all pay $10 per person of our population to upskip the companies that lost due to such loses.

I think its hard for someone to understand what i am trying to tell. You should be little smart!!!! lol

In view of the fact that many technology graduates have seen the steady erosion of starting salaries, it should be OBVIOUS that there is no shortage of qualified, US-born candidates.  Google - now that I know you prefer to hire OUTSIDE the US, I'm going to find another search engine.  I may be only one, but if enough of us do it, you won't have to worry about needing more employees!

Our national economy is in the toilet, gas prices, food prices, real estate is through the roof and no one can afford to buy anything.  If these big internet company's like cheap foreign workers so much, then pack your bags and move to India or the Phillipines, or Bangladesh, etc.  All the multi Billionaire executives can change their standard of living and not have all the great things that the good old USA has to offer.  The problem   with America today is we have 30 million illegals just from Latin America! Untold numbers from other countries! Illegal immigration is why 9/11 happened!  Our borders have been wide open for 50 years and people just come here and squat!  If these wealthy people who invest so much much abroad in 'emerging nations' would put that same money to work here in America maybe our schools would turn out some brighter graduates! Case in point, Oprah Winfrey opens a  girls school in Africa, and it has been riddled with shame and problems from day one.  That same money could have been spent here in the USA and helped poor Americans instead of poor Africans.  Bill Gates and the Google boys give millions upon millions for aiding foreign countries when that same money could have been spent right here in the USA educating Americans! Out incredibly moronic President has cost us TRILLIONS of dollars in Iraq and Afganistan, when that same money could have been spent right here in our "homeland" and made America a better place!   Somewhere along the way "we" have lost sight of what is good for America.  "We" need to focus on rebuilding our own country.  This giant [very rich] corporations should set up scholarship programs and educational opportunities right here in America!  "We" better wake up and smell the roses, because we are not in great shape financially in the world!   We have allowed foreigners to come here on Student Visa's or work visa's and they just stay! because there are no checks and balanced on there whereabouts.   Americans better wake up and BUY AMERICAN! Look around your life, 80-90% of what you own was made outside of this country!   Just like the environment, "We" have to work on it together, one person at a time, one day at a time, and build ourselves a better place to live!

 Roy Beck gave this talk some time ago but the content is still relevant <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7WJeqxuOfQ>

No! No more recruits from outside the country, Enough is enough! Millions of Americans are jobless. There is enough talent in the country and all companies should look for employees within the United States. In fact, even the sanctioned quota of 65000 H1B visas should be limited to only those foreign students studying in American educational institutions and not to outsiders. You want employees, then create a government organized job employment bureau and let all skilled jobless Americans register for free. I am sure the American companies will find enough employees from this job bureau. There are thousands of talented students both Americans as well as foreign students graduating from American colleges and universities each year.

It has become quite evident to the Americans now that the lawmakers are working in their own self interest instead of the common good of the people of America.

As for granting permanent residency to foreign students with post graduate degrees from American institutions, it sounds good, but yes, only if these students have studied prior four years of bachelor degrees in American colleges and universities. If they have been to high school here, even better. This factor is important because there are people who complete their four year degrees for cheap outside the U.S. (by the way, how one can check the authentics of these degrees? Some come with false degrees too!) and then register for higher education in the U.S., take advantage of all benefits available to them and get an easy pathway for permanent residency . This is not fair to students who have been paying huge amounts for a bachelor's degree in the U.S. and get treated differently. Their hard work and academic perserverance should also matter.