> So from a purely economic point of view, an H-1B immigrant is a perfect profit center for government taxes. It is just all things being equal and they are sp

> So from a purely economic point of view, an H-1B immigrant is a perfect profit center for government taxes. It is just all things being equal and they are specially not equal in this case. If they were so great countries producing them would have used them for no-downside profit but it is not happening. US being hub of thousands of high tech companies also not finding much use of them lately. I guess good on Canada for finding such a profit booster in times of economic downturn.