Foxconn may build $7B plant in U.S.

[cdev]

Any job / service involving subsidies may have to be put up for international bidding.  (procurement) So then it may go to the lowest bidding firm. Could be from some place with v. low wages.
 
Or yes, heavily automated.
 

[schmitt trigger]

Ive heard hundreds of stories of communities making all these concessions and then a company bailing after a few years anyway.

That is exactly what happened to the small city where I live.
A large, all-American corporation, wanted to bust its Union on their main facility in the Rustbelt.
They gained a lot of city and state concessions, and this being a right-to-work state, did not allow the new facility to unionize.

Long story short, after two, perhaps three years, with the Union up north defeated. They simply. Bailed. Out.
Just like that.

[mtdoc]

Smoke and mirrors. 

It's no coincidence this is supposed to happen in Wisconsin.  Anti-Union Scott Walker up for re-election in 2018 as is Paul Ryan. Plant not to be built until 2020.... 

Look at Foxconn's track record.   Politicians and their mythical to-be-built-in-the-future manufacturing facilities (coincidentely usually announced in important states before critical elections..). 

[Scrts]

I may be wrong, but I think H1-B is for recently graduated students and L-1 visas would be used for intra-corporate workers.  So its a different program with totally different rules.

H1B can be extended to 10 years, and on average, green card by employment (EB3) needs 5 years to obtain, therefore for foreign workers, H1B->EB3 is the easiest and most practiced way.

L1 means you are in a significant position of an international company, for example, Lenovo can send its high level management team from China to US on L1 visa. For most engineer level (not making enough influence to be a management) employees, L1 is not possible.

This is not true. I am a regular engineer in a company on L1 (B) visa.

[cdev]

It may vary quite a bit from country to country. I think that is part of India's argument.

So you both may be right.