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"The outsize role of these (outsourcing/staffing) firms has distorted the H-1B program, which Congress conceived as a way to help American businesses get access
by downrightmike 2y ago
"The outsize role of these (outsourcing/staffing) firms has distorted the H-1B program, which Congress conceived as a way to help American businesses get access to the world’s top talent. Instead, outsourcing and staffing companies bring in applicants with less-remarkable resumes, paying them lower wages and heightening the risk of undercutting American labor. The result is a system that fails US workers, shortchanges the economy, stiff-arms talented immigrants and enriches a class of middlemen."
- Dig1t 2y agoWhen congress created these laws they just fundamentally misunderstood the astronomical demand there was to enter the country. There is so much financial incentive to bring people in, for laborers, for companies looking to push wages down, and for politicians who stand to gain from additional votes, that any route to do so is bound to be abused any way it possibly can be.
- freetinker 2y agoIndeed. Ignore capitalistic forces at your own peril.
- convolvatron 2y agodid they? the us has long been a pyramid scheme where immigrants work hard for reduced wages so that their children or children's children can sit comfortably on a pile of workers two generations behind. h1b is just a white collar version.