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You should probably do some research on how many of those ended up starting their own companies. And how many jobs they created. After that you may want to ret

• silisili 1y ago
  I have not. Feel free to educate me/post numbers or links. How impactful would a say, 1 year pause be to that? Is the number of jobs created by H1B each year > the number of H1B entries each year?
  • chris_va 1y ago
    (not the parent, I don't have a specific number) Generally speaking, the economy is not a zero sum game (by definition), or we would never have made it past the first 50 people in New Amsterdam. Every person here on a visa interacts with the economy (needs to buy groceries, etc). Presumably they create more wealth for the economy than they cost, or it would not be worth it for a company to hire them. I think a more interesting question would be if, for the particular occupation (say software engineer), a person on an H1-B visa adds more than one jobs worth of demand for more software engineers. Even if they benefit the economy as a whole, it is still possible that a subset of the labor force sees extra competition. That opens up the question of is it better to suspend the program to protect a subgroup, or is it better to expand the economy as a whole.
• adamrezich 1y ago
  In order for such a statistic to be useful, you'd not only have to demonstrate it, but also demonstrate evidence that companies they start add more non-H-1B jobs to the market than they add more H-1B jobs to the market.