Competition is generally regarded as a good thing. When these people stay in the USA, they generally depress wages and send all the money they earn back to their home countries anyway, which does the rest of the US economy no good at all. Really I'm not sure we should even have any sort of H1-B program at all.
H1-B is fine if it was setup & used as it is advertised. "We can't find local people with specific skills". However, this quickly turned into "We can't find cheap people with skills". Big companies could claim "clean hands" during layoffs, because they hired a contracting agency that was mostly H1-B.
You can fix this with: 1. Requiring companies to pay the actual local rate for people with skill X AND above 100,000 (adjust for inflation). 2. An additional salary tax on H1-Bs that pays for enforcement of th
Nope. Get rid of H1B and create 15k newgreen CARDS for needed skills only. Also, only allow companies that are HQ here to use these. That means subsidiaries of foreign companies would not get that.
We should also be subsidizing training and education to improve our domestic workforce. We're not going to suddenly wake up one day and have enough workers by luck, we need to be creating them.
I don't see the problem. (Score:5, Interesting)
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H1-B is fine if it was setup & used as it is advertised. "We can't find local people with specific skills". However, this quickly turned into "We can't find cheap people with skills". Big companies could claim "clean hands" during layoffs, because they hired a contracting agency that was mostly H1-B.
You can fix this with:
1. Requiring companies to pay the actual local rate for people with skill X AND above 100,000 (adjust for inflation).
2. An additional salary tax on H1-Bs that pays for enforcement of th
Re: I don't see the problem. (Score:2)
Re: I don't see the problem. (Score:2)
Re: I don't see the problem. (Score:2)
IOW, they are not permanent.