> He presents a lot of good ideas, but I'm weary of singling out H1B visa holders. It seems the US immigration policy is counterintuitive to just about every other countries' visa policy. It is hopelessly complex and random. It rewards family connection over any valuable skill.
That paragraph is much too weak.
H1Bs are a small fraction of US legal immigration. Illegal immigration swamps legal immigration.
We could increase H1B by 10x and easily have less total immigration.
The advocates for increased H1B are being played.
We've had the bait and switch game on immigration before. We gave amnesty supposedly in return for effective enforcement. We didn't get enforcement.
As to the whole "jobs Americans won't do", I've done farm labor. Also, when one of the meat packing plants lost many of its "undocumented" workers, folks who actually had a legal right to work in this country applied.
That paragraph is much too weak.
H1Bs are a small fraction of US legal immigration. Illegal immigration swamps legal immigration.
We could increase H1B by 10x and easily have less total immigration.
The advocates for increased H1B are being played.
We've had the bait and switch game on immigration before. We gave amnesty supposedly in return for effective enforcement. We didn't get enforcement.
As to the whole "jobs Americans won't do", I've done farm labor. Also, when one of the meat packing plants lost many of its "undocumented" workers, folks who actually had a legal right to work in this country applied.