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For a "human trafficking" operation 600 people over a decade seems like a fairly small scale operation..

In terms of harm, these workers are clearly in demand, so apart from being unfair to other staffing agencies and H1B applicants, this really doesn't do much harm..

H1B is a pretty broken concept to begin with.. I was H1B for 4 years before I decided Trump-land wasn't a good place to set roots.

If you have demand for tech workers and tech workers willing to move. I think most countries and cities would move heaven and Earth to make things work out. Everybody wants to be silicon valley :)

(I don't see why SV has to have the problems it has, they seem fixable)



> In terms of harm, these workers are clearly in demand

Yes, foreign workers who are willing to work for less than local market rates are in big demand.

Foreign workers are also very likely to move a big chunk of their wages back to their families every month.

So in terms of harm, there are these at least:

  - artificially pushing down local market rates
  - money paid doesn't stay in the local economy


There are a huge number of American companies selling products in India. They also harm the local economy including in job creation. Brain dead outsourcing jobs created by American companies shouldn't really be considered as value addition to India in long term.


> money paid doesn't stay in the local economy

If the money was all invested in the local real estate marked you'd also complain :)

> artificially pushing down local market rates

In a market where the median salary is 130k, maybe it's good for the economy -- more than it hurts people.


My comment wasn't with reference to the Bay area.




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