double H1-B visas quota to 160K/year and relax USCIS's guidelines of determining employer-employee relationship.

In January 2010 the USCIS had issued a memo, as to how it will interpret employee-employer relationships and adjudicate H-1B visas. This memo has killed thousands of high tech jobs. On the face of it sounds the right thing to do when so many American citizens are unemployed. In fact this is a stupid move and we are all paying for it. The simple argument I put forth is: once USCIS cuts off the supply of H1-b workers Corporate America has that it has increased it’s usage of offshore resource this is evident in both the 2001 and 2008 recessions. The jobs USCIS have saved by preventing H1-B workers from working here in the US have gone to workers in Bangalore and elsewhere. Currently of the 3.1 Million Job Openings more than half a million openings are for information technology positions.