Not my circus not my monkeys but I find the public discourse around immigration pretty astonishing. Somehow raising the H1B cap from 65K to say 100K would take

Not my circus not my monkeys but I find the public discourse around immigration pretty astonishing. Somehow raising the H1B cap from 65K to say 100K would take away American jobs and drive down wages but legalizing few million illegal immigrants (many of whom are barely educated) is a humanitarian gesture ? Even if those thousands are Chinese and Indians are willing to work for lower wages and aren't technically special, they are indeed far more productive than illegal immigrants, have significantly lower crime rates and probably lowest reliance on welfare. Not to mention, higher you go up the skill level more people does not mean driving down wages on the contrary it means increase overall output of that industry. Two engineers can invent a bike 5 can invent a car. On other other hand 1 gardener is useful 2 gardeners drive down wages of each other. H1B and overall immigration policy of USA does not seem to be based on sound economic arguments but rhetoric. No wonder results are a disaster.