>As long as we continue to have people who want to come to the US, I can't see why we'd want to make the process easier unless we can continue to keep these fil

>As long as we continue to have people who want to come to the US, I can't see why we'd want to make the process easier unless we can continue to keep these filters in place. Our onboarding process is hard, but there is a positive side: only customers who are highly motivated to pay sign up. As long as our customers continue to pay, I can't see why we'd want to make the user experience easier unless we can continue to ensure we get paying customers. [If you can't spot the folly in your logic, your false dichotomy suggests that the U.S. is getting all the motivated immigrants it can get. In reality, even the motivated immigrants who do end up in the U.S. on an H1B end up working semi-rote jobs at large companies when many of them would start job creating companies if they were allowed to. ]