This article is extremely poorly written. While the conversations around visas (specifically H1Bs) are especially relevant to the HN community, the conversation

This article is extremely poorly written. While the conversations around visas (specifically H1Bs) are especially relevant to the HN community, the conversation this article is trying to spark is rote and shortsighted: "Percentage-wise, fashion models get more H1B visas than elite programmer grads." Why should a programmer feel any more entitled to a work visa than a fashion model? There's so many important aspects of the way this country handles immigration worth inspiring conversation about. A visa lottery? That gets triggered on April Fools' no less. A person who has spent 6 years in America studying, working, starting a company, and contributing to the economy has the same chances as a phantom non-existent consulting seat in a large outsourcing firm. A mildly miffed H1B lottery non-winner who has to leave the country in 6 months