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People who are against this IMO, are mostly concerned with not appearing “racist” or xenophobic in any way. Virtue signal.
If you are an employer looking for cheap slave like labor this is bad news. Americans want to high a salary these days. I need employees who are always afraid of being deported so I can insure they don’t leave for a better job.
Wait are you saying you are hiring "cheap slave like labor" and now you won't be able to?
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Some, but not all, H1B immigrants are highly skilled. Some are fodder for body shops, some are used to avoid having to pay market rate. This behavior has been documented in great detail. I do not believe it unreasonable to take measures to encourage hiring of citizens over importing workers when official unemployment is near 15%, and unofficially, closer to 20%. Your typical tech company is likely to be sophisticated…
Then change the rules to make it more difficult for the body shops maybe? Doesn't seem too hard
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Some, but not all, H1B immigrants are highly skilled. Some are fodder for body shops, some are used to avoid having to pay market rate. This behavior has been documented in great detail. I do not believe it unreasonable to take measures to encourage hiring of citizens over importing workers when official unemployment is near 15%, and unofficially, closer to 20%. Your typical tech company is likely to be sophisticated…
Then change the rules to make it more difficult for the body shops maybe? Doesn't seem too hard
Much "better" for the GOP to do this and claim, "Look, we're trying to keep the brown people out!" And it's good for the Democrats too, "Look at those racists! Vote for us instead!" Neither side has much to gain from doing the right thing.
Of course, doing so will do very little to nothing for American workers. Companies who want the top talent will go where the top talent lives, and this may just speed up the process (one example could be a simple adjustment to hire more folks in Vancouver, for example). Somehow, some people in the US forget that yesterday's immigrant is today's citizen.
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Estimated to be 400,000 mostly in IT.
Should clarify that this is IT as in low level positions in cheap outsourcing firms. Not to confuse with tech companies. Edit: You can see visas per company here with average salary https://h1bdata.info/topcompanies.php You can make an opinion for yourself but suffice to say that the bulk of the jobs are in cheap outsourcing firms, not in tech companies. (cf. google 15k VS tata consulting 73k)