Wednesday, March 04, 2020

All Your IT Belong to Us: S.386 Returns

No surprise here:  Sen Mike Lee (R-New Delhi) will re-introduce S.386.

Have a friend or relative in I.T.?  Know a kid who spent $60K or so obtaining a Computer Science degree?

They'll need welfare payments if Mike Lee (R-New Delhi) gets his way.

...Many Americans have lost...jobs, professional status, much money, homes, and even marriages as the Indian workers spread out through the U.S. technology market. The earlier waves of Indian workers are now managers and recruiters and are using their jobs to block Americans from even getting interviewed for new jobs. This massive loss by a generation of American technology graduates has largely been ignored by the established media, even though it has been accompanied by mass underemployment of tech-experts and by a massive decline in U.S. technological ambition and innovation....
And yes, the college "credentials" of Indian IT or CompSci people are usually overblown, or the "software knowledge requirements" for particular jobs are bull-plop, designed so that only Indian workers get the job.

It's great that Mike Lee (R-New Delhi) wants Utah to become the next Silicon Valley.

But Utah's narrow little interests should not take precedence over the interests of US-native IT professionals in the other 49 States.


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