Submitted by Sam, Oct 29, 2007 11:18

Just restrict the H1B and L1 visas to the people they were intended for: Highly educated and highly skilled employees that American companies need. 85,000 should be plenty. All you have to do is ban the use of the temporary visas by foreign companies and American companies where the primary product is not technology. If we need these people to create the next generation of cutting edge products and research, why are we wasting the H1B visas on foreign outsourcing service companies like Wipro and Tata? Why are we allowing the visas to be used by companies like IBM and Accenture? These companies are not producing new high end products or technology. They are using the visas to facilitate offshoring of more American jobs. Do we really need to import more Oracle DBAs and .net or Java programmers? NO! However, I predict that our duly purchased government will give them whatever they want as soon as the election is over.

I've been hearing of a slight rebound in the numbers of students declaring for computer science and engineering lately. Raising the visa numbers will quash that trend for good. I guess we should all get training in America's core competency: Retail Management.

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