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Submitted by SeattleGameboy on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @11:19AM

SeattleGameboy writes: I guess we can kiss any real wage increase in IT sector goodbye. The Senate is proposing almost unlimited H1-B visas that is BEYOND even what Microsoft was asking for. With bi-partisan support, it is likely to pass easily.

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Cheap Labor (Score:2)

by ThatsNotPudding ( 1045640 ) writes:

Every day, I get an email from NSPE about engineering in the news, which usually has a section of stories about US corporations lamenting about not enough native-born students getting STEM degrees, so they really need more and more H-1B visas issued.

Bullshit.

This is and always has been about greed pigs preferring to hire compliant, desperate people that are more than willing to work a dollar for a dime's pay. And the odd, occasional industrial espionager from the mainland? Just the affordable cost of do

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