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However, if they stop H-1 then companies will just move their shops to India/China.
The whole point of the H1B program seems to be to enable big employers undercut US wages with half a million obedient workers
There is no "if": they are doing it regardless.
a lot of H1B visa holders are doing jobs that millions of Americans could easily do, like manual QA testing.
For many such jobs, the goal is to get either a university student or an H1-B, aka cheap labor. The idea of having a professional class for IT or engineers (see layoffs at places like DuPont, etc) is anathema so really, it's a wonder why more STEM types don't opt for health care like nursing, physician's assistant or just plan MD/medical school. By now, since it's no longer 1998 (where ppl could claim ignorance of reality) but 2018, everyone should already know this.
Another variation of the same is companies giving small amounts of money to universities to perform research that companies need; the net result is that this research is done by a student/postdoc who gets paid 30K and not by company employed PhD scientist earning 120K. It also cuts down on positions that company needs thus resulting in less job opportunities by students.
it allows US to import very highly skilled set of families
to other countries such as Canada
99.9% of minimum-wage earners
as racist it may sound, I welcome them
True. However, if they stop H-1 then companies will just move their shops to India/China. Pharmaceutical industry has been doing this for 15 years already.
Since before the invention of money, the wealthy have an end game: they have everything and the rest have nothing but work and pain.
Unions are the only thing I ever seen stop this
representatives who have scruples and moral compass
And we can block their imports.
Patrick saysAnd we can block their imports.
Not if our elected representatives are on pharma payroll, which is the case now.
many cases creators of great companies such as SUN, Google, Hotmail
Look; the solution is FCKING SIMPLE! Mandate a $120k salary to H1B visa holders and the problem of companies using them to undercut the labor market goes away!
Look; the solution is FCKING SIMPLE! Mandate a $120k salary to H1B visa holders and the problem of companies using them to undercut the labor market goes away!
BTW, that's not too far from your ~$120K/yr target and what it does, since we know that American citizens want health care careers with stability/long term prospects, the PA is the best way to gauge if we keep salaries competitive enough, that enough Americans will choose STEM over health care careers.
We need to stop outsource houses from using most of the H1Bs, and keep H1Bs for jobs that really need qualified people that aren't available.
There are not millions of Americans ready to take tech jobs. Tech industry is adding nearly 200,000 jobs per year. US is producing only ~8k EE and 13k CS engineering non-foreign grads a year.
applied chemistry/chemical engineering
Health professions are good for now, but I think they will crash and burn soon because medical price increases are simply too high. "Medical tourism" will kill dental, ophthalmology, etc.
There won't be much job growth in a profession where you can move products almost instantly across frontiers.
We need to stop outsource houses from using most of the H1Bs, and keep H1Bs for jobs that really need qualified people that aren't available.
There are not millions of Americans ready to take tech jobs. Tech industry is adding nearly 200,000 jobs per year. US is producing only ~8k EE and 13k CS engineering non-foreign grads a year.
Tech industry is adding nearly 200,000 jobs per year. US is producing only ~8k EE and 13k CS engineering non-foreign grads a year.
Unions are the only thing I ever seen stop this
Hard to see your point here when today's Unions are pro illegal immigration.
Anyway, making a $120K minimum floor for an H1B job would require employers to be more careful about displacing Americans.
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