Norman Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of California, Davis, investigated the H-1B programme for a simple reason: he cared for his students. The sluggish economy in 1993 made them sweat for jobs. Some worked in Macy’s as sales clerks. The 1990 guest worker programme, swelling the labour pool, had exacerbated their desperation. It perplexed Norm.
Born to ‘one-and-a-half immigrants’, he grew up in East LA and San Gabriel Valley. After a short stint as a Silicon Valley programmer, he secured a PhD in pure mathematics from UCLA in 1975, then joined the UC Davis faculty.
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