I love when people come into a discussion with the presupposition that others just need to shout the loudest, and/or are just emotional for their beliefs. I love they present no facts, no counter evidence, other than their hubris and relative sense of superiority when they are, most likely, at the median level of intelligence in a given demographic such as this forum.

Let me counter your points, but I will do my best to keep it short. Mainly because I've done my research, and I don't feel like having a forum argument with someone that obviously thinks they are superior with their labeling people like me...the "loudest in the room".

1. "They're paid very handsomely for their work"

Can you show me the article where H1B's are paid 10%/20% or more over the prevailing market rate of their greencard holder/American peers for a given title at a given company? I'd love to read that. Visas are for skilled labor shortages. We all know in economics 101 when demand exceeds supply, prices go UP...not even or down, but UP. We are in agreement or not there?

In the meanwhile let me offer the first article to refute the exact argument of why companies say they need H1B's in the first place.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/01/study-stem-immigrants-are-n...

Let me offer a second, as I feel generous:
http://lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/the-cas...

Hello potatolicious, in a field of obvious shortage, wages are FLAT, did you catch that? FLAT. That doesn't sound "very handsomely" to me.

2. Now on to your second point
"In what ways do the business models of Wipro, Tata, and Infosys resemble what is being described in the blog post, though?"

The discussion here is clearly based on "kenjagi And there you have a step-by-step blueprint on how to undermine the efforts of local talent pools to stand out in favor of saving tens"

Kenjagi, I wish I could've put the way you did. Brilliant, you got 40 comments from one sentence, that's what truth brings.

We have an immigration system with endemic issues around fraud. Do we need an article to further prove that. Here's the first one off Google, I didn't read it, I know it'll confirm my argument here. I can send you 40 more if you like. Just send me one where the H1Bs are paid so generously over the local talent due to shortages.

http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/us-senator-introduces-...

So we have a system that's broken, in any normal circumstance this would force a state/city/or country to investigate the issue, and possibly freeze the program. Most definitely not increase the program, as what we have currently happening, but then again Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon are writing the laws. Let's try a simple question, do Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon want to pay more for labor? Yes or No? Let me know what you think. I'm expecting yes, from your comments.

"resemble what is being described in the blog post" If you don't think this suppresses wages for US citizens, green card holders, and Visa workers, startup or not, you have no idea how labor markets work.

Visas, suppress wages for the people here and the people that come here. We are in the same boat.

I don't expect a reply, maybe you will talk down to me again, I don't know. In the outside chance I do get a reply with refuting evidence, I will gladly bring in the other 40 or so articles further supporting my case. I can bring UE data in, but that would rather shatter any argument you have left. I'll bring that last.

"The main problem is that nearly everyone involved in the discussion has only seen one side"

Don't assume what I know and what I don't know, because you are dead wrong. I've been researching this for the past year.