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Brettbaker's avatar

Corporate boardrooms as shit-stained as the streets of South Asia.....

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Enon's avatar

It's a good idea to use H1B regulations against cheating corporations, though the law effectively is only what you can get a lawless judge to agree with.

A much bigger stick than H1B regulations is RICO, which makes it a separate felony to own property or exert control over an enterprise (any group) through means of any of dozens of crimes, including any type of fraud or harboring illegal aliens. (There is no counting the predicate offenses, really - every jurisdiction's list incorporates all of the other juriductions' lists by reference, plus conspiracy, attempt, and even attempted conspiracy to do any of them.) Civil RICO can be brought by anybody, no criminal charges needed. The state versions of RICO, for instance Georgia's, are often easier to wield, since there is no need to prove a criminal enterprise exists apart from a corporation - corrupt federal judges decided corporations were effectively exempt from RICO, that a corporation couldn't conspire with its employees.

In Georgia, abuse of the elderly and disabled is a RICO predicate offense. That is defined to include threatening or causing "economic harm" to any person over age 65 or with a impairment which makes it difficult to afford necessities such as shelter, thus including all poor people. Under the Ga. RICO law, efectively all employers, most governmental agencies and their managers are subject to forfeiture and total dispossession of all power, authority, privileges, permits, licenses, charters and property, (including personal property, beneficial ownership and retirement accounts) - and any attempt to have *or keep* any of those things is *another* felony and civil tort.

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John's avatar

My first software development job out of college, in 2000, was at a company called Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, just outside of NYC in Clarke, NJ. The newly installed director of my division was an immigrant from India with a last name of Patel. When I joined, the office was about 80% American and 20% H1Bs from India. All were very nice people that I enjoyed working with. Three years later I took a job at a different company. When I left there were approximately 70 people in my division. Five of us were Americans. Everyone else was an H1B from India.

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The American Tribune's avatar

Yikes

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John's avatar

It was quite the learning experience. I taught them tennis, they taught me cricket and I learned to love Indian food (no one wanted pizza when we worked late). Young men would go back home for a month and return with a wife they met 1 week before the wedding. I also learned that the caste system is real. One time I observed a higher caste, mediocre, engineer was coming down hard in a lower cast, talented, engineer. When I asked the talented engineer why she let the other talk to her like that, she said it was ok because she was of a lower caste (she used a word I do not recall). I told her she was in America now that caste doesn’t mean anything here, but my comments had no effects.

It was both a good and bad experience.

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Monkey Brains's avatar

"The subversion and corruption of a working system is a nearly genetically inherited skill for us. The Indian version of ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is probably ‘If it ain’t broke, go ahead and break it’. An Indian learns through gruelling experience that every certificate, licence, no-objection letter, form, approval, endorsement and visa has a price. Every process is made deliberately tedious so that someone may invent a lucrative shortcut"

https://openthemagazine.com/art-culture/kill-the-indian-first/#google_vignette

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