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Counterpoint: I’d rather gut the H1B system and ease the path to citizenship. The H1B system just exists for employers to pay lower wages to skilled workers. I
by jimbob45 6y ago
Counterpoint: I’d rather gut the H1B system and ease the path to citizenship. The H1B system just exists for employers to pay lower wages to skilled workers. I would much rather those workers get fast-tracked to citizenship instead. Letting them leave with the money they make here isn’t in our best interests and neither is preventing them from changing companies, which allows employers to underpay them. I would heavily support using the H1B as a probationary period to test assimilation into the US before granting full citizenship but that’s not really in the spirit of the program at that point.
- nsm 6y agoThe reality is that the US government has done NO meaningful progress on immigration reform to guarantee a path to citizenship for skilled people. This leaves H1B as the only option and now that is gone too, but only due to executive order. I find it hard to believe there will be any meaningful reform under any administration. Particularly until they can get out of this habit of clumping all kinds of immigration (legal and illegal, skilled and unskilled) into one bill, so that nobody can agree on anything.
- akhilcacharya 6y agoUnfortunately this administration would never want to “ease” anything. There was a time in which fast tracking skilled graduates of American schools was a bipartisan consensus - those days are gone.