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| DATE | 2005-05-12 |
| FROM | From: "Steve Milo"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Opposing Views: The Debate Over The H-1B Visa Program
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> > >From first hand experience I can tell you students who do not have a strong grasp of the english langauge are incapable of grasping any concept outside of a text book. Foriegn students are not necessarily smarter or more capable.
> > The reality is that American students do not want to be around students who can not form a complete thought and verbalize it.
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> The same can be said about imigrants and the like. I don't care what the
> students want, and I'm all for imigrants, even Russian ones.
I'm not, the US is rightfully trying to stem the flow of russian immigrants to this country. The Russian government intentionally permitted its criminals (real criminals, not 'political dissidents') to leave their borders and head to the United States.
As far as I am concerned anyone immigrating from russia after the 1970's was unnecessary, ironically even russia cared enough to not permit its criminals leave its borders.
MS was at one point one of the largets employers of russian immigrants.
The russian immigrants I knew years ago, all they could think about was microsoft. Even today mentioning Unix or Linux garners a smirk from them.
H1B visa 'students' are given an advantage over a domestic student only because they are foreign. There are too many loopholes that are designed to 'level the playing field'. Furthermore, the education system is forced to be dumbed down for the sake of the students who either barely speak a word of english, or think everything about this country is a joke.
The two largest users of the H1B visa are the IT industry and the modeling industry. The H1B visa system is a farce imposed on the American public. The software company's are using it to saturate the IT workforce market.
Steve M
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