House Guru

From this source:

As the heated debate over H-1B visas intensifies, Indian firms may move their operations to Mexico as a way to dodge immigration restrictions in the United States. Mexican workers are allowed to work in the United States without visas as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Also, Indian firms could move their Mexican IT workers to the U.S. without a problem.

Don't expect millions of Indians to pack their bags and move to Mexico soon. What I read into this story is that there's more than one way to skin a cat (an American colloquialism that means there is more than one way to get to the same goal).

Expect more and more Indian companies will set up subsidiaries in Mexico and other countries that are signatories to the NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement) and other treaties which make work in the US easy. There is too much at stake to allow onerous restriction on the movement of brain workers to interfere.

H-1B visas are getting harder to obtain. But the need to fill jobs does not disappear when new restrictions appear. Clever companies find clever--and legal--ways to do the necessary things.

Besides, Mexico is a nicer work destination for most Indians than Japan, as one example. Nothing wrong with Japan. It's a very nice place to live. But, as Indians discover soon after they arrive in Japan, Japanese food is extremely bland by Indian standards. And Japanese temperatures do not approach the high temperatures of India for the most part.

Mexican food can be quite spicy. Its flavor is different from the flavor of Indian food. But it can be equally hot when it wants to be. And Mexico can be stifflingly hot, like most parts of India during certain seasons.

Yes, Mexico makes sense as a steppingstone to the US.