"Dan Rather Reports" exposes visa loophole bringing cheap labor

Millions of business travelers from across the globe come to the United States every year to attend conferences or negotiate deals. Most of them come and go legally, using business visitor visas issued by the State Department. But a recent investigation by Dan Rather Reports revealed allegations of visa fraud by corporations that are using these visitor visas not to conduct business, but to import foreign laborers to do work -- work that could and should be done by Americans.

In the world of high-tech, misuse of the visas has been an open secret for years, veterans of the information technology industry told us. But last month, the grumblings that had long been relegated to employee lounges and Internet message boards were suddenly laid out in open court. The complaint reads like a John Grisham novel, detailing schemes, cover-ups and fraud allegedly surrounding a systematic effort to import workers from India.

The lawsuit was filed in Lowndes County, Alabama, by a computer executive named Jack Palmer. The target of the suit is Palmer's employer, an I.T. giant called Infosys Technologies based in Bangalore, India. The crown jewel of India's hi-tech outsourcing industry, Infosys started out in 1981 with seven people. Now it has more than 120,000 employees who provide back office labor and computer consulting for U.S. companies like Wal-Mart, Goldman Sachs, American Express -- and curiously enough, even the software paragon Microsoft.

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Found via: http://www.drudge.com/news/142578/visa-loophole-brings-cheap-labor-us

...such thinking is forbidden.

:rofl:

and make it difficult for green card holders and citizens to find decent work.