IP: H1B visas and hiring in Silly Valley

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:52:10 -0700
> To: dave () farber net
> From: "Suzanne M. Johnson" <sjohnson () cncdsl com>
> Subject: H1B visas and hiring in Silly Valley
>
>  article on use of H1B visas in Silicon Valley...full article at:
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/10/19
> /BU91243.DTL
>
>
>                  On the Sidelines
>                  H-1B leaves minority workers on
>                  sidelines, groups say
>
>                  Carrie Kirby, Chronicle Staff Writer
>
>                   William Kramer didn't want to blame racial
>                  prejudice for his failure to find an engineering job.
>                  But after a year of job hunting in Silicon Valley's
>                  booming economy, he began to wonder what was
>                  going on.
>
>                  Despite his credentials -- he is a master's candidate
>                  in physics with experience at Lawrence Livermore,
>                  Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos national
>                  laboratories -- Kramer (who did not want his real
>                  name printed) couldn't land a job.
>
>                  Then, one day this spring, his phone started ringing
>                  with all kinds of promising job offers. It hasn't
>                  stopped since.
>
>                  Kramer isn't sure what made the offers start pouring
>                  in, but he has a theory: Shortly before the calls
>                  started, the year's supply of 115,000 H-1B visas
>                  was used up.
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