On 2 February 2017 at 05:05, Jim Fernandes <amigo...@runbox.com> wrote:
> There was no loop-hole, no illegalities, nothing fancy about my > immigration process to the US. I was never sponsored by a relative nor did > I have to beg someone to take me to the US. It was a simple legal process > that I used in order to immigrate to the US and I am proud of it. Its > called the H1-B visa and it allowed me to take up employment from day-one > after my arrival. It also meant that the US government got to collect > Social Security tax, Medicare tax, state income taxes and federal taxes on > every dollar I earned - which is how it should be. In addition, I purchased > my own health insurance as well. I did not become a financial burden to my > host nation and never took any assistance from any US government agency > from day-one - Ever. I did not displace a local; nor did I accept lower > wages than the locals. In fact, I was paid on par with the local standard > (or possibly more) - as I came in with high demand skill set that enabled > me to take up employment in Silicon Valley, California. > > You have a problem with this? > > If you aren't familiar with the H1-B visa process, please educate yourself > as to how it works. It was a very fair program when it was first launched > way back in late 80's/ early 90's. However, in recent years, American > corporations got greedy and began to misuse it, such that, now-a-days it is > mostly used to replace high paying older locals with lower paying younger > immigrants. > Your friend The Donald Trump doesn't think too highly of this (if/when he's thinking, that is). His ambivalence and double-speak, of course, makes it very difficult to know what he will really do over it: Why we shouldn’t celebrate Donald Trump’s support for H1B visas for Indians https://scroll.in/article/805343/why-we-shouldnt-celebrate-donald-trumps-support-for-h1b-visas-for-indians H-1B reform bill introduced in US House of Representatives http://www.businesstoday.in/current/economy-politics/h1b-reform-bill-introduced-in-us-house-of-representatives/story/245261.html Jim, I understand that you're saying that H-1B was good for you, but not for those coming after you. Okay, corporate greed didn't exist earlier, etc. This is the second-class passenger's syndrome which the Indian Railways is famous for. As long as I'm outside, please let me in. Once I'm in, can't you find some other place to bloody-well get on to? Why crowd my compartment? FN -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ Frederick Noronha http://about.me/noronhafrederick http://goa1556.in _/ P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Fcbk:fredericknoronha _/ Hear Goa,1556 shared audio content at https://archive.org/details/goa1556 _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/