3 ms·
The argument isn't that they're not as good as their American peers. The argument is that they're not exceptionally better than their American peers. The stated
by jordanb 10y ago
The argument isn't that they're not as good as their American peers. The argument is that they're not exceptionally better than their American peers. The stated purpose of the visa program is to bring people in who can do work nobody else can do. But what happens is that companies bring in tons of perfectly ordinary people to do perfectly ordinary work because they want people who are cheaper, younger, and easier to abuse.
- scdoshi 10y agoOkay, but he's basing this argument on his paper, where he sets out to show that immigrants are in fact, not exceptional. However, if you believe my reasoning, then he isn't really measuring anything. So, we don't know if immigrants are exceptional or ordinary or worse. Or at least not based on his paper.
- lazaroclapp 10y agoBut is the H1-B really for "exceptionally better than"? Isn't that what O-1 is for? H1-B is for "highly skilled workers in an area in which there is strong demand for highly skilled workers". Where, at the time the program was created, highly skilled probably meant anyone with a college degree on the same area as their work.