There’s no doubt that Indian outsourcers are hollowing out the US IT industry wholesale. Companies like Microsoft and Intel are increasingly outsourcing their entire development and testing functions for entire software products to outsourcers like Infosys, who then import their workers from India to work on them. Some of this work also get offshored to their main offices in India. H1-Bs at Microsoft get paid over $100,000 a year. H1-Bs at Infosys would be lucky to get half as much. Many only get $24k a year for testing. Infosys and the other subcontracting companies get to keep most of it.

Many completely ignorant CEOs and people like Tom Brokaw are buying into the notion (pedaled to them relentlessly by NASCOMM shills like Vivek Wadhwa) that these are the “best & brightest”, “highly skilled” from India and should be given a green card instantly, when infact many are completely underqualified. Even Indian IT bosses said only 25% of Indian IT grads are employable. Most are from some unheard of diploma mill in India, downright lie about their qualifications in their resume, received no more than a 3 month crash training course in India before being imported to the US as “experts”. Indians now make up the largest % increase in illegal immigrants in the US in 2010. Many simply overstayed their H1 or L1 visas.

America really needs to wake up to this deceitful game played by Indian outsourcers. If we continue to lose IT jobs to them, fewer and fewer American citizens will want to go into IT, and we will lose our IT edge over other countries. Computer Science and Engineering is still the future, it’s just the future won’t belong to us if we continue to give away these jobs. We need to stop going for the quick buck and hire cheap labor from India and the Phillipines, and start nurturing home grown talent. This “skilled worker shortage” thing being sold to us by CEOs and Indian outsourcers is a self-fullfilling prophecy. We cannot keep importing foreign labor forever. Pretty soon America will become overcrowded and turn into a 3rd world country like India, Mexico and the Phillipines.

But why does the United States continue encouraging more students to study here?

Some may think that educating international students is not important. But it has always been important for the United States. While the billions of dollars they bring in is a known “fact,” there are several other factors involved. With globalization, domestic issues are now international issues. The dependence on international talent in the fields of technology and science is an important reason the United States educates these students, who are then hired for research and in high-tech industries. Much of the research in science is conducted by people from other countries, who received their education here. Yes, it is important to ensure more Americans are educated in these fields, but it has to be done while retaining foreign talent.

Research also shows that there are fewer international students in U.S. colleges today than a few years ago, which is a matter of worry for the United States. Why do you think so much importance is given to the “International Education Policy?”

An educated American should be able to understand that along with the local talent, international talent is also necessary to respond to the demands today.

It’s import now for those companies that have received gov’t funds to stay afloat invest in US employees until their funds have been repaid. It’s that simple. Companies like Citigroup who are agressively seeking outsourcing of jobs most be halted ASAP until they get their yard in order.

Instead of spending on infrastructure they are looking to turn a quick profit in 2009 to stay afloat. This after taking 3 bailouts.

The amount of money these foreign students spend in the U.S. for their tution fee and to support themselves is astounding.

Education to international students is certainly not being provided to help their countries.