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There needs to be a balance as there’s an existing country that enabled these companies to exist and grow as large as they have on the backs of its treasure and
by azinman2 5y ago
There needs to be a balance as there’s an existing country that enabled these companies to exist and grow as large as they have on the backs of its treasure and blood.
Personally I think we should be trying to get most of the worlds brightest to want to become citizens here. The issue is when companies have low skilled jobs that they want H1Bs using because they can pay them less and know they’ll stay around as they need to for their visa. That’s an abuse of the system.
- davidw 5y ago> low skilled jobs Hard work is a skill in and of itself, that many of our ancestors who migrated here possessed - and not much else.
- azinman2 5y agoExcept: 1. The population was low then, and the entire economic dynamic and need for immigrants was completely different than now. Laws change over time to reflect the current situation and should never remain static. 2. We already have existing ways for people to immigrate here legally outside of H1B that includes the low-skilled. 3. H1B was specifically designed for people who have skills that are difficult to grab from existing citizens, and is a requirement of the program. 4. This program has notoriously been abused as a way to pay less than the existing market of citizens would take for the job. 5. There are plenty of great people who should be here on an H1B (especially fresh grads), but are subject to a lottery that includes those who consultants have put in specifically to pay less. The abuse has displaced some who deserve it. 6. The premise of pre-reserving slots for H1B violates the entire spirit of the visa.
- davidw 5y ago> 2. We already have existing ways for people to immigrate here legally outside of H1B that includes the low-skilled. You don't know much about immigration in the US.