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The difference between a fair market where immigrants can compete for American jobs and the current state of affairs is massive. The Visa lottery system keeps
by hayksaakian 8y ago
The difference between a fair market where immigrants can compete for American jobs and the current state of affairs is massive.
The Visa lottery system keeps workers locked into lower paying wages that what they could get as full citizens under the same exact circumstances.
Big tech can leverage deportation against you because you can't "walk away" from a job offer with as low risk as an American could.
"No immigration restrictions" and 100% immigration restritions are both better solutions than the status quo.
I personally believe more lenient immigration laws will help everyone.
- plicense 8y ago> The Visa lottery system keeps workers locked into lower paying wages that what they could get as full citizens under the same exact circumstances. FYI - you can switch jobs in H1B. I don't live in the USA, but everyone I know who is from my home country (India) and is on a H1B and in tech, have switched jobs atleast once (mostly between FB, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, Microsoft and Amazon). OTOH, if you're talking about L1 Visa (which is NOT a lottery system), then everyone I know who is on L1 (interestingly they are all at Amazon and Microsoft), then I agree - none of them have switched jobs so far.
- conanbatt 8y agoI wouldn't say 100% immigration restrictions would be better. Certainly not for any immigrant. The H1B cap is ridicolously low. 65.000 a year for a country that has 350 million people, in a 7 billion world.
- mvc 8y agoI'm all for more lenient immigration laws. But I'm not sure where this idea comes from that people with H1Bs are like indentured servants. I moved jobs twice in 6 years. Getting one in the first place is a lottery but once you have one it doesn't seem like much of a hurdle to get a renewal with a different company.