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> their agency was making most of their money Allowing body shops to sponsor H1B visas is ridiculous and directly leads to this kind of exploitation. Requiring
by ralph84 5y ago
> their agency was making most of their money
Allowing body shops to sponsor H1B visas is ridiculous and directly leads to this kind of exploitation. Requiring the place where the person actually works to sponsor instead would make so much more sense.
Of course simple reforms like this can never happen because the current debate on immigration in the US is 100% closed borders vs. 100% open borders so the broken status quo continues on.
- verall 5y agoYeah us immigration supporters really believe in 100% open borders. Yeah, right lmao
- aldebran 5y agoWon’t stop it. I was paid $11.75/hr as a Masters holder while on OPT. Should CPT/OPT be killed?
- ralph84 5y agoOPT is basically an internship. Internships are often at/near minimum wage, regardless of degree level or immigration status.
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- j_koreth 5y agoOPT can be 2-3 years as far as I'm aware. I think a little longer than a lot of internships.
- oatmeal_croc 5y ago"Often" is key here, many I know (including myself) made 350k or higher on OPT.
- Spooky23 5y agoOf course that’s by design. Big company development centers in out of the way US cities are really offshoring operations in the US. The governments make money (guest workers pay taxes and send remittances home), the companies make money and don’t get grief for offshoring, the wages for low/moderate tech skills are suppressed, and the worker gets screwed.
- wutbrodo 5y ago> the worker gets screwed Are you referring to the guest worker here, or the general labor class in the host country? I'd imagine the former gets a substantial net benefit too, relative to the counterfactual in which he's making domestic country wages that are a tiny fraction of his remittance + consumption.
- VRay 5y agoYeah, man, the one thing I was really hopeful about with Trump was some serious h1b reform. If a president who hates both tech companies and immigrants didn't do it, I don't think anyone will.. (for the record, I'd prefer to just hand out green cards rather than exploitative work visas..)
- ricardobayes 5y agoexactly. What kind of country wouldn't want capable engineers to come in?
- cinntaile 5y agoThey want even more to have capable engineers and not having to pay top dollar for their skills.
- addicted 5y agoOf course what Trump actually did was make people’s lives more miserable, uncertain, and gave the body shop like companies even more agency and power over their workers. Unlike the Obama administration which changed rules to the extent they could (Congress hasn’t passed changes to immigration law in nearly 3 decades now and the executive is necessarily constrained) to reduce the percentage of visas that went to body shops and also prosecuted many of them for their exploitation. Of course, Trump’s utter indifference, actually attempts to make immigration worse both for immigrants and citizens, was completely predictable.
- gloryjulio 5y ago
- pjc50 5y agoAny kind of reform is misrepresented as "100% open borders".
- klyrs 5y agoI also don't know of anybody seriously advocating 100% closed borders in the US.
- refurb 5y agoDon’t most IT consulting firms “make most of the money”? When I was consulting (not IT), my billable rate was $250/hr and I made $65/hr. These IT consulting firms should be paying the prevailing wage set out in the H1-B application. If they aren’t they should be prosecuted.