H-1B visa has side effects

Wilma J. Vass - Leesburg, Va.

The H-1B visa program was never intended to result in the replacement of the training and development of American high-tech workers. As implemented, however, it has contributed to the decline in the U.S. economy and an increase in the U.S. unemployment rate.

Stop parading around the song and dance of Microsoft and Oracle executives who have lobbied to eliminate the cap on these skilled workers.

They are only interested in getting cheap, high-tech labor and are willing to sacrifice the interests of the very country that made their tremendous success possible to achieve that goal.

Posted at 12:08 AM/ET, May 19, 2009 in Letter to the editor
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