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There isn't a shortage of top talent domestically in the USA. US tech companies import workers so they can drive down wages. This isn't controversial and it's
by leftyted 7y ago
There isn't a shortage of top talent domestically in the USA. US tech companies import workers so they can drive down wages.
This isn't controversial and it's not xenophobic. The NYT has many op-eds covering this issue:
1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/06/us/outsourcing-companies-dominate-h1b-visas.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/06/us/outsourcin...
2. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/opinion/workers-betrayed-by-visa-loopholes.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/opinion/workers-betrayed-...
See also the criticisms on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Criticisms_of_the_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Criticisms_of_the_pr...
- username90 7y agoThere is definitely a shortage of top tech talent domestically in USA if you consider that USA has more top tech companies than the rest of the world combined. The only way to reasonably distribute top talent to those companies is to either accept lots of high quality immigrants or to move some of them abroad to spread out the competition for talent.