To: H-1B/L-1/offshoring e-newsletter

Mon Aug 26 18:39:18 PDT 2013


I've mentioned recently that my op-ed on the disgraceful and destructive
scapegoating of the India bodyshops, by Congress, the industry lobbyists
and even some critics of the H-1B program would run soon.  It's up now,
and you can view it at

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-26/stop-blaming-indian-companies-for-visa-abuse.html

(Or plug "matloff bloomberg schumer" into Google.)

You've heard me make these points before, but I would especially urge
you to conduct the "try this at home" experiment I suggest in my piece:
Go to www.linkedin.com and plug "software engineer ebay" into the search
box at the top of the screen.  You'll see that most fit the H-1B
profile:  In the U.S. for only a few years, home country India or China
(yet eBay is NOT a bodyshop), etc.  Yes, eBay does hire Americans--for
marketing, clerical work and so on, but not for engineering.

The reason I use the word "destructive" above is that this rhetoric will
actually harm U.S. citizens and permanent residents in the programming
and engineering fields, as it will give Congress an excuse not to enact
real reform.  I've explained this before, e.g. in

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/DiggingTheirOwnGraves.txt

Norm

Archived at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/BloombergScapegoat.txt