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josh1983,
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1/31/2013 | 3:06:03 AM

re: Senator Wants 55,000 Green Cards For Tech Grads

I think what Senators should think about is to make Americans more competent and skillful. Also more scholarship should be available for Masters program in STEM fields. If they go with this proposed plan, in next 5 years most of Americans will have no job or job will low wages. Being a migrant from India, I know that most young Indians are now either an engineer or a doctor, and most of them are paid $500/month or less...If this open a door for them, they would use this opportunity and willing to work for $1000/ month....In Ten years, America will be like India, Rich will get richer each day, other will find hard to live.

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josh1983,
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1/31/2013 | 2:54:21 AM

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I am an immigrant from India but I don't think this is a wise decision because India is a higly populated country with almost every Indian an Engineer or a doctor ( education is free), but most of them are paid $500/a month or less, so if they remove the limit every body would think of misusing the law. If this happen, most of Americans like us will find to get a job or rather get a job with very less wages because H1b will be ready to work even for $1000/month....

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javagirl,
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6/6/2012 | 4:28:15 PM

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You are very wrong about foreign nationals getting funded by their nations for higher education. I (my parents) spent about $12000 each semester for 2 years on my Master's tution fee and that does not include living expenses. Not even one person I know from India had any funding for their education in USA as far as I know. I can't speak for other countries as I do not know how it works there. It hurts when people comment with half knowledge.

All my friends, my juniors and even my younger sis is in the same boat. No one gets any funding to study here. Only chance is to get funding from the college you study in based on your merit. When we came on student loan and personal loans of parents back from India (with > 12% interest), when they have to adjust their budgets even until now and when are stuck here just to repay it off and go back home soon to family, its very rude on your part to comment that way. That said, we are considered as out-of-state candidates and pay 3 times more tution fee.(In state in my college was $4000 per semester)

You might ask, why then do you guys come? Well its a college friend group decision at that age, you come here not knowing you'd get stuck with a huge debt repaying it even after 2 years of working. Parents in India are good at going through extreme struggles to support kids when it comes to child's education - Never say No.

Only thing is education is more practical here and work environment is better and comfortable.

P.S. - Never ever commented on any post. But today felt like doing it as these myths hurt sometimes.

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rlawson346,
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5/30/2012 | 2:57:08 PM

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The lobbyists are releasing press releases in support. It's very clear who this benefits, and it isn't American STEM workers: http://www.marketwatch.com/sto...

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rlawson346,
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5/25/2012 | 3:38:08 PM

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I'm a tech grad who wants a Senator that represents the American people. That's the only shortage I see.

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kandq,
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5/23/2012 | 7:24:35 PM

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Just another Republican attempt to drive middle class wages down. We have loads of out of work IT professionals so we don't need this kind of program. In fact we should be restricting H1B visas and forcing US companies spend money on existing IT staff to keep their skills current.

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bdilbert980,
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5/19/2012 | 6:13:55 PM

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Imagine how much better the US economy would be if Congress, the White House, and the media spent 1/4 of the time on creating real jobs for real Americans instead of jockeying for jobs to replace Americans in our own country.

What a crock of paid off politicians - these same elected officials passed egregious H-1b legislation that allows employers to lay off Americans and only hire foreign visa workers - no questions asked. Despicable.

Why are greedy billionaires/corporations whining that they can't find qualified Americans? Simple they don't want to and thanks to $$ influence they don't need to legally.

Go to youtube, type in USINPAC (the only foreign pac on Capital Hill) and you will see interviews with senators and congressmen glowing about the the wonderful work of their benefactor - all of the Indian outsourcing companies.

H-1b fraud and abuse is a bi-partisan disease and elected officials on both sides of the aisle including the Prez and VP are in on the game. Vote them all out. Please

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MyW0r1d,
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5/19/2012 | 4:56:03 PM

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Whether it is a lottery or reservation system, they are based on a premise that there are not sufficient US students or citizens with the capability to fill the STEM programs. I am sorry, but I disagree with this flawed premise in both categories. I've stated before that these individuals eligible for subsidized training in US colleges and universities are also getting financial help from their host nations. They are paying almost nothing. Compare that to a US national who has to fight for even partial funding and hear constantly the indebtedness of an undergraduate degree (not to mention graduate or PhD programs).

Clearly, I agree with Mr. Conrad's remarks adding that both Obama or Romney would do well to focus on making these advanced degrees as affordable to US citizens as they are to the free/subsidized foreign students and see how that will affect availability of a qualified national workforce. If the problem is the latter (capability) then perhaps the educational system is flawed in requesting and accepting substandard levels of performance. Certainly, not a week passes without news of students disciplined for "non standard hair color", artfully sculpting their favorite basketball star in their hair, youngsters missing one day too many while working and caring for terminally ill parents even while maintaining grades above par, ... the list can go on and on. I know, weekly exceptions that do not reflect the larger norm of our system. But is the educational system focusing on what's important or locked in on regimented attitudes of mass production? If anywhere needs out-of-the-box thought, isn't it the STEM programs?

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twins.fan,
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5/19/2012 | 12:19:41 AM

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In 2011, the GAO conducted a study of these foreign workers that are entering this country and found that holders of H1B visas are NOT highly skilled workers. In fact only 6.0% are "Fully Competent". The graph reporting that fact can be viewed at the following location http://techtalk.dice.com/t5/im... That graph appears in the 2011 GAO report on page 58 as Table 5. Please note that over half of the H1B visas were issued to "Entry Level" workers. Later the report reports that the majority of recipients are third world workers, primarily India and Communist China.

These visas are issued to REPLACEMENT workers not highly skilled workers, replacement workers primarily from India.

The author of this bill Senator John Cornyn founded the "Friends of India" Senate Caucus with Hillary Clinton. Currently there are over 35 US Senators who are members of that caucus. While Cornyn, Clinton, ant the other 34 Senators may be Friends of India, it is important to note that India is NOT a friend of the US. India is a friend of Iran. India is a friend of Syria. India was a friend of the Soviet Union until the Soviet Union collapsed.

When the United Nations votes on issues, India is more likely to vote with China and Russia than the United States. When Cornyn, Clinton et al are called "Friends of India", that means they are friends of Indian campaign contributors who are funneling millions of Indian dollars into the pockets of US Senators who are betraying the US and US working people.

Cornyn is a Friend of India and an enemy of US STEM workers and US workers in general.

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jleone940,
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5/18/2012 | 3:32:52 PM

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Our IT companies are insanely profitable right now, yet IT wages/salaries have barely budged.

Yahoo makes 90+k in profit, per employee, yet is still laying off 2000 workers this year.

Senator Cornyn, tell me, if you ran a small business and you could make 90+k profit per employee, wouldn't you be hiring like crazy? It is clear, our current economic stagnation is being caused by the single-minded pursuit of increasing profits.

If you are a CEO, you know you don't get a bonus by keeping profit levels the same, you get them by increasing profits. The Board of Directors at Yahoo looked around and saw that other Tech companies were making even more profit, per employee, than Yahoo (Apple for example at 400+k per employee), and hence the layoff.

Even when ordinary, Main-Street-Common-sense, would tell anyone such a layoff is a sure test for insanity.

Further these same companies have huge off-shore bank accounts, and the only way that money can get back into country is through T-Bills. Hence huge government debt, fed by those T-Bills.

Stop wasting time senator Cornyn with an issue dear to your highest campaign contributors. Get to work on fixing the real problem, you can do it, and most Republicans are for it. Find a way to get the trillions that are out their, in foreign bank accounts back into the U.S.. Find a way to get a tax amnesty for the repatriation of funds for the just-right-and-correct purpose of getting 10+ million americans (who are proven workers, and we don't need to import) back to work.

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