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I am not wild about the H-1B program, but if it were about individual Indians I would be a fan. Admittedly it is a selected subset that I meet here, but they are generally intelligent, hard working, friendly folks. If I have a complaint about them it is that they tend to be too compliant to the korporate overlords. That and they undercut wages tremedously. This just adds to decreasing concern American korporations have for their employees.
However the program is about korporate greed here and in India. It is about American korporations not investing in American workers or the American education system. I read an article a while back about how American korporations were shifting their education dollars from American universities to those in China and India. They did this because they felt they were getting more bang for their buck.
I do not know for a fact how these firms that are hogging the H-1B visas treat their folks. I do know that Indian work conditions, even for professionals, are Dickinsonian compared to American standards.
This whole paradigm of profit at any cost has got to stop.