In Silicon Valley, Recruiting Clashes With Immigration Limits

New York Times by Matt Richtel | Apr. 12, 2009 (News Report)

The question comes from one of dozens of engineers around a crowded conference table at Google. They have gathered to discuss how to build easy-to-use maps that could turn hundreds of millions of mobile phones into digital Sherpas — guiding travelers to businesses, restaurants and landmarks.

“His plane gets in at 9:30,” the group’s manager responds.

Google is based here in Silicon Valley. But Sanjay G. Mavinkurve, one of the key ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Business, Sci/Tech
Topics: Immigration, Technology
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Posted by: Posted by Leo Romero - Apr 12, 2009 - 8:15 AM PDT
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Edited by: Leo Romero - Apr 12, 2009 - 8:15 AM PDT
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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 13, 2009

The story focuses upon the glories and misfortunes of one star performer for Google, with only a minor genuflection to the major problems in the ill-conceived and barely regulated H-1B program. It seems a propaganda piece as part of the big lie public relations for big corporations who have used H-1Bs to import cheap foreign tech labor and attack the middle class of American workers.

The H-1B visa program was supposed to be a temporary program to address a shortage of skilled workers. If there was a shortage, pay offers would go up, but they haven't because there is no shortage. Most H-1B immigrants are given mundane jobs, and kept as indentured servants who are docile for fear of deportation. Administration and oversight are disorganized and spread over multiple agencies that end up enforcing nothing due to bureaucratic haze. Though Microsoft provides support ... More »

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Leo Romero
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