Reply #17: I agree. What horse $hit ...

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I've been complaining about H1B visas since before I became unemployed.
In San Diego, I call the Qualcomm campus "Little Calcutta". I'm not trying
to sound racist, because I've been accused of that, but there are Indian
engineers everywhere. San Diego has a section of the city known as
Little Italy, and that's not considered racist.

Qualcomm I feel abuses the system more than any other SD company.
They place an ad in the Podunk Times in the middle of Nowheresville
and when no engineer applies for the position, oh well, we'll just
hire an H1B engineer.

I read a statistic stating that there are more US engineers on
unemployment then there are H1B engineers.
That means you can kick out all the H1B engineers, hire US engineers
to fill their positions, and you would still have US engineers on
unemployment.

I believe that the number of H1B's should be tied to the unemployment
rate. The higher the unemployment rate, the fewer H1B visas. The lower
the unemployment rate, the higher the H1B visas.