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You are conflating immigration policy with the H1-B. The H1-B process is specifically designed to shackle the immigrant to a company for a period of 5 years no

You are conflating immigration policy with the H1-B. The H1-B process is specifically designed to shackle the immigrant to a company for a period of 5 years no different than Central Pacific hiring chinease to build the transcontinental railroad. When Messi and other star talent come to America, are they piped through intermediaries like Infosys, Cognizant and Tata and given roles such as QA Analyst and Data Analyst? Of course not. He could freely negotiate with any club teams he so deserves because his level of skill and accomplishment commanded such attention. You seem to be conflating my argument that I am anti-immigrant or I am naive to assume that immigrants don't grow the area. That is not what I am arguing and that is not what the H1-B Visa is designed to do. I'm sure you believe that is the intent of the program but that is not what it IS doing and that is reflected by the volume of workers and median salaries. You can even see this spread in the salaries s of just Software Engineers. Some area as high as 220,000, others are 109,000. Do you're own homework though, research: "Why Are Wages Not Rising Despite the Labor Shortage?" It is textbook economics but people associate it with racism or xenophobia and nationalism and corporations are all too ready to profit from this sentiment because of course they are. Why would they invest in employee development, Training, interviewing, blah blah when the answer is to just increase the pool via programs like the H1-B especially when so many arrogant engineers believe that being a software engineer is somehow an innate talent that just needs to be discovered and unlocked in special people.

esoterica 7y ago
Like I said, I agree with you that the H-1B program is bad precisely because of its restrictive nature towards employees who want to switch jobs. My point is that there are usually no available alternatives to the program for hiring immigrants, so using the H-1B program is not prima facie evidence that a corporation is intentionally seeking out a low wage employee who is shackled to them. This is evidenced by the fact that many (not all of course) tech companies have a policy of starting the green card process on day 1 of an employee’s tenure, which speeds up the process of freeing the employees from the work visa handcuffs. Yes, companies like Infosys exist, but the companies that pay their engineers 300k+ also have to use the same program to recruit immigrants because that’s just the unfortunate nature of how the US immigration system works.

esoterica 7y ago

Like I said, I agree with you that the H-1B program is bad precisely because of its restrictive nature towards employees who want to switch jobs. My point is that there are usually no available alternatives to the program for hiring immigrants, so using the H-1B program is not prima facie evidence that a corporation is intentionally seeking out a low wage employee who is shackled to them. This is evidenced by the fact that many (not all of course) tech companies have a policy of starting the green card process on day 1 of an employee’s tenure, which speeds up the process of freeing the employees from the work visa handcuffs. Yes, companies like Infosys exist, but the companies that pay their engineers 300k+ also have to use the same program to recruit immigrants because that’s just the unfortunate nature of how the US immigration system works.