...that is over half a million just for one year, 2008, and they threw hundreds of thousands of American citizens out of work!


http://www.nri-worldwide.com/nri/cat.php?id=50

US financial recovery bill will effect Indian visa holders
Report dated February-18-2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus bill that has been passed by the US Congress includes restricting firms receiving government bailouts from hiring foreign workers including Indians, through the skilled worker H1B visa programme, if they are replacing American workers.

Indians account for a majority of the H1B visas issued to non immigrant skilled workers for up to six years.

With thousands of Americans losing jobs every day there has been apprehension that workers may be replaced by low cost foreigners or jobs outsourced to places like India.

In 2008, some 570,000 Indians were issued H1B and other nonimmigrant visas.

Concurrently, US firms both Indian and American have been asking the government to raise the cap to permit companies in the US greater access to the growing talent pool across the world.