US to hike H1B visas, merit will count for green cards

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149. Well, if you were offered $400k a year for moving across the world for a few years, would you do it?

I think Many people might! THAT is a comparable situation to what they are being offered to come here.

You did hear me that they have a standard of living an order of magnitude less than we do here. If we could work in a place temporarily that was 10 times more expensive and live very frugally and make 4-5 times (or more) as much as we made here, and we get a free college education to prepare for this, wouldn't you do that? The problem is that we and our families have to permanently live at this cost of living. THEY DON'T!!! This is an investment for them.

And the more of them that get experience working over here and move back, that makes Bangalore that much bigger a center for high tech development for outsourcing, which pushes Silicon Valley off of its earlier perch that much more. We TRAIN their workers to build THEIR economy! Not ours! Not to mention as many others in this thread have mentioned, much of the money they make over here gets sent back to be invested where their families live, etc. instead of being spent in our economy, which reduces our economic activity that much more than if those salaries were to go to American workers instead.

I've been working at some companies that tried to outsource tech support to India, and cut back on domestic hires here there. They found out the hard way that those working here did the jobs of more workers here, since just about all call issues got escalated back to them instead of being handled at the source, and customer satisfaction went down. They ultimately moved away from doing this, partially because as a smaller company the management had more ethics than some of the bigger companies here do. They realized they made a mistake ethically as well as practically.