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DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discriminate Against US Workers

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Re: DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discriminate Against US Workers

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If they are ALL on H1Bs, then why are they located in the states at all? I'm pro immigration (and H1B), but that just seems weird.

so they can reap the benefits of US investment?

Following reasons :

Almost all employees are from different countries India, China, Japan and UK. There are very few places on earth where we could have met as students. It is a co-incident. If we were studying at Singapore University we would have setup our company there.

Re: DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discriminate Against US Workers

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Only if laws of economics in such a complex system were easy to guess. The more likely scenario in my opinion is American companies more aggressively moving their jobs to India and even other related business to more visa friendly countries like Mexico. My employer has already moved his QA department to India full fledge putting freeze on all QA hiring in USA. Easily 10-15 jobs lost.

On the one hand you warn about trying to guess the outcomes of complex economic systems, while on the other you go ahead and put forward a wild guess yourself. It's just as likely that although some jobs may be sent back to India, if all wages increase, then it's a net benefit to your average American.

No sir. I am not making any guess, I am only stating the fact.

Re: DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discriminate Against US Workers

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only if laws of economics in such a complex system were easy to guess. The more likely scenario in my opinion is American companies more aggressively moving their jobs to India and even other related business to more visa friendly countries like Mexico. My employer has already moved his QA department to India full fledge putting freeze on all QA hiring in USA. Easily 10-15 jobs lost.

On the one hand you warn about trying to guess the outcomes of complex economic systems, while on the other you go ahead and put forward a wild guess yourself. It's just as likely that although some jobs may be sent back to India, if all wages increase, then it's a net benefit to your average American.

> if all wages increase, then it's a net benefit to your average American

If all wages increase it leads to inflation making it ineffective.

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