Norman Matloff

H-1B work visas allow skilled foreigners to work in the United States for up to six years. In October 2000, Congress voted to increase the number of such visas issued annually to 195,000. Norman Matloff argues in the following viewpoint that the influx of H-1B workers is harmful and unnecessary. He contends that the computer industry has misled Congress with false claims of a skilled worker shortage in order to take advantage of cheap foreign labor. As a result, U.S. computer programmers are being shut out of the computer industry as software jobs increasingly become occupied by foreigners, in the author's opinion. Matloff is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis.

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