Norm Matloff On Reasons 6,7 And 8 why the H-1B visa cap will increase
[James Fulford] @ 10:21 am

Norm Matloff [send him mail] writes:

Enclosed below is an excellent blog by Computerworld report Patrick Thibodeau, listing five reasons why Congress will raise the H-1B cap, and boy, did he nail it.[Five reasons why the H-1B visa cap will increase: http://blogs.computerworld.com/five_rea ... l_increase Patrick Thibodeau March 15, 2008] He even correctly noted that the opponents of the H-1B program can’t count on IEEE-USA, a putative H-1B-critic. We still don’t know what will happen in Congress, but there are now two mew bills to expand H-1B, and I think Thibodeau’s analysis is right on the mark. However, I must add a few reasons to his list:

Reason 6: Congress won’t see through Bill Gates’ misleading testimony.

Gates has an aura, certainly not deserved in the view of many of us techies who eschew his software (I’m a longtime Linux user), but definitely effective on Capitol Hill, which is populated largely by gullible technophobes. Yet you don’t have to know a byte from a bite to see that Microsoft has been outrageously untruthful. Consider for example the following:

- Microsoft claims they need H-1B to keep jobs in the U.S., and only resort to offshoring if they can’t find workers here. Yet in an internal presentation made to managers, Microsoft said, “Pick something to move offshore today.â€