> What is the point here? Let them all in in case one of them makes a unicorn? The point is that if a talented engineer has to go back home because becoming a

> What is the point here? Let them all in in case one of them makes a unicorn? The point is that if a talented engineer has to go back home because becoming a permanent resident takes over ten years, and the H-1B system is a literal gamble, then the US immigration policy has failed. > This is rock people thinking on the level of "every aborted baby could have become the next Mozart". The difference being that we know that visa holders are already talented, and maybe they wouldn't build the next unicorn, but their work provides a net benefit to the economy. If anything, it would be overall better for the economy to kick out all the underperformers, regardless of their nationality, and let H-1B holders in.