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Inspite of a report released this week showing that half of California tech workers have lost their jobs during the tech meltdown, Congress is being lobbied very hard to approve an expansion - again - of the number of visas that can be issued to corporations to import temporary tech workers. Corporate lobbyists argue variously that there are not enough tech workers in the U.S. (read the preceding sentences again) or that our 8th grade algebra classes are inadequate to train tech workers. One never stated reason is the unreliablity of tech employment in general, over the long term.

Another is because the "U.S. Congress" is now catering extensively to the whims of lobbyists from India and China:  "The purely offshore outsourcing model is out of favor, and Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) companies are finding that they need U.S. facilities and staff to run operations for their American clients."

Temporary imported workers are one way to make job offshoring successful. The offshoring firm can then have cheap labor in India or China, while keep just enough workers on site in the U.S. to meet the in-your-face job requirements.  Other solutions include acquiring U.S. firms, and using the L-1 visa to perform intracompany transfers into the U.S.
[Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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