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If anyone is curious where the mistake is in this article's reasoning, it's in the assumption that people are more or less interchangeable.

The basis of outsourcing at most large corporations is that people are more or less interchangeable.

Someone asking why we need to hire programmers from other countries might just as well ask why Real Madrid has to hire so many non-Spanish players. Can't they just train more Spanish players to play at the level they need?

Sorry but that is a ridiculous analogy. Most programmers here on H1B's are boiler room grunts. They work for large consulting companies where their key talent is looking like they know what they are doing. There are very few remarkable Cobol programmers working for InfoSys at Fortune 500 companies.

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So if you tell Infosys that they can't have Indian H1-B cobol programmers in the US, don't you think they'll just hire them in India at even lower wages? So we lose a job, we lose the taxes they would have paid, we lose the spending in the community, and we lose good people in the country.

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don't you think they'll just hire them in India at even lower wages?

Don't you think they already would if they could?