After reading the above, I know a lot of good South East Asian programmers, many Indian, and I know a bunch that really suck. This is not a generalization, it is an observation. I also know a whole lot of WASP programmers that rock, and a whole lot that SUCK ASS. There is no doubt that there are companies that scam the H1-B system and that it affects programmers already in the US, but it affects the formerly H1-B programmers as well, so if we're to get some really good insight into this, how many citizens, formerly H1-B, are pissed off about the corruption in the system? And if you can figure a way to stem the corruption, by all means, be about it. More griping on here isn't helping. Write your congress and senate. Organize. Join your local AITP or whatever and do something.

I'm starting to suspect that there may really *be* a subtle conspiracy by the cons to move us closer to fascism and further from democracy. This ain't helping. And just how is the gov't paying qualified people to inspect my PC? Or is the dude with the beepy wand thing going to be running grep scans of my drive?