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Originally posted by juniorgrrl
Interestingly enough, something like 20% of the jobs are held by people on work visas.
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What is there to be mad about?
Companies are attracted to international workers for a few reasons:
1). They are willing to take those jobs that other people don't want--like offshore EE in Louisiana. Or jobs with high travel
2). They will work for less, for the most part, than many American workers will work for.
3). Many of those companies are multinational--an engineer might work on a project in his home country for a few years, then train others in the same project in another country for a few years--necessitating a work visa. This happens to the engineers who work for my father all the time.
So, given those factors, I'm surprised the work visa rate isn't higher. The unemployment rate, to be sure, is rotten, but the fact that there are people willing to do the work that some of us don't want to do isn't rotten at all.
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