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Why the US is losing foreign graduates

March 20, 2009

Hira and others have argued that outsourcing companies, such as Infosys and Wipro, have used the temporary visas to train foreign workers in the U.S. and then move the jobs overseas.

Loosening the rules for H-1B visas, he believes, would be counterproductive. "By outsourcing, American companies have destroyed job opportunities in the U.S. while creating them in India and China."

Image: Chinese students pray during their graduation ceremony. | Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters