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Why?

wallace_f 9y ago
Consider the Brain Drain argument that is used to explain why poorer countries have a hard time catching and keeping up with already-developed countries. It's the other side of that.
- conanbatt 9y ago
  But someone that could provide enormous value in the future, might not qualify today. It is also a harm in the terms of brain drain. There should be very little doubt on the fact that any restriction will harm everyone in that 'ladder of skill'. It particularly harms those who would acquire those skills later on and dont have them today.
pfisch 9y ago
Those skills are more in demand and probably much rarer. It makes more sense that employers would need to look beyond US borders to fill those positions.
- Nrsolis 9y ago
  ORRRRR....maybe they should pay higher wages to stimulate demand for people to enter in those occupations. I can't help but think that the H-1B VISA program should be tightly restricted by industry and time-limited. If we can't find programmers, our immigration policy should be to recruit them abroad and then find a way to put them onto a fast-track to citizenship. NAY...we should COMPEL them towards the process of citizenship lest they forfeit some amount of tribute. In no way or shape should our immigration policy serve to distort the labor market here to corporate benefit. We should be seeking every possible mechanism to help our economy grow via the increasing demand for skilled labor here in the USA. That doesn't happen when you collapse demand for entry-level positions in the USA like H-1B has ben demonstrated to do. We should also BAN in the strongest possible terms the practice of forcing an employee to train their replacement or put it under such onerous terms that no corporation would do it. I'm talking about the equivalent of a years salary in severance or more. If you can't do the job on day one, you have no business replacing a native worker who is doing the job.
  - sitkack 9y ago
    I believe you should be assisting in writing a goal statement for a revised H-1B VISA program.

Why?

Consider the Brain Drain argument that is used to explain why poorer countries have a hard time catching and keeping up with already-developed countries. It's the other side of that.

conanbatt 9y ago
But someone that could provide enormous value in the future, might not qualify today. It is also a harm in the terms of brain drain. There should be very little doubt on the fact that any restriction will harm everyone in that 'ladder of skill'. It particularly harms those who would acquire those skills later on and dont have them today.

pfisch 9y ago

Those skills are more in demand and probably much rarer. It makes more sense that employers would need to look beyond US borders to fill those positions.

Nrsolis 9y ago
ORRRRR....maybe they should pay higher wages to stimulate demand for people to enter in those occupations. I can't help but think that the H-1B VISA program should be tightly restricted by industry and time-limited. If we can't find programmers, our immigration policy should be to recruit them abroad and then find a way to put them onto a fast-track to citizenship. NAY...we should COMPEL them towards the process of citizenship lest they forfeit some amount of tribute. In no way or shape should our immigration policy serve to distort the labor market here to corporate benefit. We should be seeking every possible mechanism to help our economy grow via the increasing demand for skilled labor here in the USA. That doesn't happen when you collapse demand for entry-level positions in the USA like H-1B has ben demonstrated to do. We should also BAN in the strongest possible terms the practice of forcing an employee to train their replacement or put it under such onerous terms that no corporation would do it. I'm talking about the equivalent of a years salary in severance or more. If you can't do the job on day one, you have no business replacing a native worker who is doing the job.
- sitkack 9y ago
  I believe you should be assisting in writing a goal statement for a revised H-1B VISA program.