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H-1B visa demand heads south - like the economy
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One way to reduce the unemployment rate in this country is to temporarily halt the Visa program. It is a sad state of affairs when I go to a major manufacturer in Milwaukee and see 20 contractors, 4 of whom are American, and the rest are non-American.
I believe your comment, "employers are putting a greater emphasis on hiring American workers, buying American goods and abandoning offshore outsourcing" is, generally speaking, wrong. While this may be true in some cases, many large corporations feverishly continue to outsource to companies like Infosys, GenPact, IBM, etc.
One thing that Henry Ford understood when he offered workers an unprecedented $5/day wage was that affluent workers make for good consumers. American workers tend to spend their money in the US, but workers from overseas send a lot of their earnings back home, thereby draining the US economy of needed spending.
If we want to get the US economy going again, we need to hire American workers.






