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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TopCat who wrote (651725)	4/17/2012 6:57:29 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1583784

TopCat, > You failed to mention (I think) that foreign engineers must be paid the going rate for the job they are doing while in the US. That was in the back of my mind, but I know of no restriction that enforces this. I do know that the cost of bringing foreign engineers here is not trivial, though. This is a common misconception every time the topic of H1-B visas pops up, the notion that these engineers just contribute to unemployment. High-tech firms like Intel and Sun (now Oracle) claim they need the foreign talent, which I agree with, but there are always some bleeding hearts even in high-tech that say we should go out of our way to hire domestic talent first and only use H1-B visas as a last resort. Ted of course is just repeating the same misconceptions he reads about in whatever left-wing blogs feed his mind. Tenchusatsu