By Grant Gross, IDG News Service
May 03, 2013, 9:02 AM — Many U.S. tech
companies are pushing hard this year for an increase in the number of
high-skill immigrants allowed into the country, but many veteran IT workers
question their motives for wanting to increase the number of visas under the
controversial H-1B program.
Microsoft, IBM and recently
Facebook are among the
large tech companies that have called for an annual increase in H-1B visas for
high-skill workers, arguing they can't find qualified tech workers in the U.S.
to fill all their open positions. Reports from those companies -- and others --
of thousands of unfilled tech jobs in the U.S. seem to support their argument.
A group of eight U.S. senators has pushed this year for an increase from the current
65,000-person cap on
H-1B visas to as much as 300,000 workers. But critics say the skilled worker
visa program undercuts U.S. wages and is filled with abuse.
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