Every time this issue is brought up on HN there's a ton of people hijacking the conversation with talk about tech-worker shortage [1,2]. You even fail to note t

Every time this issue is brought up on HN there's a ton of people hijacking the conversation with talk about tech-worker shortage [1,2]. You even fail to note that two of the people- Dutch and Swiss, mentioned in the article aren't even 'tech' folks. This is an important moral issue even if you disregard the STEM-worker shortage. There are plenty of foreign nationals working in the US, who are here because of specific skills that are important for their company. These folks do not all belong to the nebulous pool of 'STEM-shortage'-fillers. I have friends who were PhDs in very specific fields with very specific talents who have had to go back because of losing out in the H1B lottery (O1 visa/EB1 is often too arbitrary or restrictive to be a reliable option). Another example on HN is the top rated comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8160860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8160860 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637756 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7372574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7372574