Are the effects of H1b visas conflated? Which side are you of this Bloomberg debate piece.
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monsieurr
Aug 24, 2020
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https://www.livemint.com/news/world/h-1b-visa-how-us-most-sought-after-visas-help-americans-11598313370343.html
Link to the article talking about the two Bloomberg Opinion columnists. Rachel Rosenthal owns Noah Smith IMO
#workvisa #h1b
H-1B visa: How US' most sought after visas help Americans
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The real problem is USCIS h1b adjudicators are not qualified enough to guage application merit & eligibility.
FYI: I am on H1B
I doubt citizens would tolerate this nonsense. White people in our org have routinely stood up to this and have been systematically eliminated during yearly layoffs.
Like I said, this seems extremely pronounced in our org. I'm on H1B.
The research this Noah Smith mentions is the kind of research that says that when people open umbrellas a rain usually starts. I.e. it's confusing cause and effect because the H-1Bs are being brought to mitigate wage growth not the wage is growing because of H-1Bs.
Here is an eye-opening article from March 2000. It’s by CIS who claim to be pro-immigrant but I don’t think so. Anyway, the article is titled “Indefinitely Temporary”. For those that haven’t woken up that this GC backlog is by design, read this two decade old article, right around when AC21 came out.
Here is an excerpt:
“Proponents of this guest worker program who argue that these workers should be admitted because of current economic conditions should be asked 1) why the legislation provides temporary visas rather than green cards, and 2) if and when economic conditions change, do they propose to expel these temporary workers from the United States?”
https://cis.org/Report/Senate-Boost-HighTech-Guest-Workers
It's interesting that everyone is fighting for the H1B program and expanding it but there is no interest in most of those groups to actually provide a path to citizenship or permanent residency.