Crack down H-1B visas?

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126721

Normally I don't like too much government involvement in corporate affairs. But in this case, I must agree. The H-1B program was designed to allow workers to come to the US and work if there wasn't a qualified US worker for the job. In cases such as layoffs, H-1B's should be the first to go.

To go even further, I personally believe that it would be a great economic stimulus to revoke most (if not all) H-1B's. We are facing record unemployment numbers and revoking the H-1B's would free up jobs for US workers. I'd propose giving companies and H-1B workers six months until revocation.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1B_visa

"The regulations define a “specialty occupation” as requiring theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge in a field of human endeavor including, but not limited to, architecture, engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, social sciences, medicine and health, education, law, accounting, business specialities, theology, and the arts, and requiring the attainment of a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent as a minimum."

Basically they are work visas for highly skilled labor. Lots of computer programmers are here on h-1b's.

 

I'm a computer programmer. Mostly in C, but I do some C# as well. I also program web stuff in PHP.