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> We're talking about empowering corporations to bestow US live and work rights on an employee of their choosing, in an end-run around normal immigration proced
by tn13 10y ago
> We're talking about empowering corporations to bestow US live and work rights on an employee of their choosing, in an end-run around normal immigration procedures.
What is wrong with that ? Honestly I dont see why getting Indian and Chinese workers as cheap labor is bad either.
Whatever regulations drove out manufacturing sector from USA mgiht drive out tech from USA too.
- SomeStupidPoint 10y agoManufacturing didn't really leave the US, the jobs are just done by robots.
- j_koreth 10y agoH1-B workers are generally mostly used as programmers and brought in by large tech companies to use instead of native labor. I'm not really sure what manufacturing has got to do with this unless programming was made obsolete by robots already.
- dpark 10y agoThe entire justification for the H-1B visa system is so that we can bring in highly skilled labor to fill positions that cannot be filled with citizen talent for a reasonable price. If you're hiring H-1Bs at below market, your failure to fill the position is as likely due to your underpaying as it is an actual labor shortage. You cannot reasonably justify the need for H-1Bs if you're underpaying. Further, if you use H-1Bs to fill positions that you could have filled with local talent, then you're taking that visa away from another company that might legitimately need it. Making H-1Bs dependent on bidding or pay seems a plausible way to ensure that they are going to companies with real need and not just companies that are trying to undercut the labor market.