An American CS prof talks against H1B visas

[thewayne]

Some interesting points. Basically he says American students are avoiding tech and science fields because of the devaluation of the fields from cheaper foreign workers and that the foreigners are not better workers.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers/2011/03/an-internal-bra.html

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/21/161211/CS-Prof-Decries-Americas-Internal-Brain-Drain

Comments

[silveradept]

I wonder how the data, if it were collectable, would bear out that hypothesis. And how it would avoid cultural pitfalls that aren't all that well-disguised.