H-1B Workers Mad, Demand Same Treatment As Illegal Aliens

"Following all the rules, Indian national Sanjay Mehta came to the United States on a temporary work visa in 1997, hoping to build a glittering career in the fast-moving information technology sector. But nine years later his application for a green card remains snarled up in a bureaucratic logjam, and he looks with frustration at the strides made by illegal immigrants who he says simply jumped the fence from Mexico," Reuters writes. "'The long wait throws high-skilled professional immigrants' lives in limbo,' said Aman Kapoor, the founder and president of Immigration Voice, a national grassroots organization representing skilled immigrants across the United States. 'They are not able to move to better job opportunities in the prime period of their career, which is very professionally frustrating for them,' said Kapoor, an Indian national who works as a programmer analyst at Florida State University."

[FAIR comment: Kapoor's comment indicates that he does not realize the intent of the H-1B system, which is not to encourage people to come here permanently, but to bring them here as quasi-indentured workers beholden to their employers.]

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