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Originally Posted by jms62

Maybe a bit dramatic however wages far below market due to the fact that someone on H1B CAN NOT work for anyone other than the company holding the VISA hence the term Slave. How is that allowed in a "Free Market"? If there was a shortage then why haven't real wages moved in 20+ years?

i find it a disgrace that u.s. companies hire people on H1B's so that they can pay them far less than a comparable u.s. worker.

The ease of hiring H-1B workers certainly hasn't helped. More than 80 percent of H-1B visa holders are approved to be hired at wages below those paid to American-born workers for comparable positions, according to EPI. Experts who track labor conditions in the technology sector say that older, more expensive workers are particularly vulnerable to being undercut by their foreign counterparts. "You can be an exact match and never even get a phone call because you are too expensive," says Norman Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of California-Davis. "The minute that they see you've got 10 or 15 years of experience, they don't want you."