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in US? yes. when we will get to the "citizen of the world" equality it would be another issue. Right now we have distinct countries with their own citizens and

• troebr 11y ago
  At the same time, the US getting educated and skilled workers that it never had to pay a dime for to educate. If you look at European countries, a lot of them are trying hard to prevent their skilled workers from leaving for the US. If anything, these people are coming, paying high taxes whilst receiving only a tiny fraction of the benefits (no medicare, no unemployment, no education cost) etc. They may or may not be driving salaries down (pretty sure if the law was enforced it wouldn't be the case), but you can't ignore the rest. There's also a lot of statistics on immigrants and children of immigrants founding a disproportionate amount of companies compared to US natives.
  • ap3 11y ago
    There will still be immigrants without H1b - but H1b specifically targets tech employees with the fallacy that there are not enough tech workers
  • pound 11y ago
    saving money on their education cost and getting taxes paid is fine, sure. in the same time you have a local citizen who is out of job. how much money will be spent on him/her (in)directly? from unemployment benefits at first to potential disability eventually, to cover expenses with healthcare or any other payments that would be defaulted.