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>Trump apparently (I did not know this until reading the sibling links) wants to move to merit based immigration He also wants to cut the quota to a third of i

• repolfx 8y ago
  Not sure why you're being downvoted if it's true. It can still be better for engineers though, if they are in the top third of desired immigrants from a jobs perspective.
  • moultano 8y ago
    Engineering benefits from enormous network effects. American engineers are better off if all the engineers in the world move here. The industry goes where the engineers are. It's not because the valley has few engineers that it pays high salaries, it's because it has many engineers, and the high paying companies locate here to benefit from the network effects.