I agree that a green cards (permanent residency) and citizenship involve significant obligations. From a fiscal point of view H1-B's are all win for the Govern

I agree that a green cards (permanent residency) and citizenship involve significant obligations. From a fiscal point of view H1-B's are all win for the Government. They won't take chronically sick or otherwise disadvantaged people. They don't take old people. They mostly (all?) get health insurance. H1-B don't involve much more long term liability than tourist visa's. Many (most?) H1B don't have kids. When I was an H1B I paid many multiples of $20K in tax and had no kids in school. > It costs $15-20k per year to educate a child in most states. I am wondering your source. I don't know where this money could go. Teacher student ratios are about 25 to 1 and teachers cost about $75k, so I figure it costs about 3K in basic salary plus about 1K in reasonable overheads + $6K in government waste. Total spending is k-12 spending in the US is $526.1B (1) Total children are 25.0 + 25.4 million (2) So it actually costs about $10K per child. 1 - http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2013USbn_13bs1n_2021#usgs302 http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2013USbn_1... 2 - http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp