Because they hire every available American engineer, and they need to import more.
How about we tie the H-1B program to the unemployment rate?
As long as more than 8% of the American STEM workers are unemployed, the H-1B quota is zero.
It doesn’t get to the full 180,000 unless fewer than 4% of the American STEM workers are unemployed.
Not a bad idea. But I’m sick of the Amercian workers being screwed! We don’t have a voice!
Oh, and we need to expand the ObamaCare umbrella to cover foreign workers, they need have a mandatory program that, given the possibility of exotic diseases and the lack of early tax contributions, starts with an up-front fee of, say $12,000 payable by the employer, due the day they start work, non-refundable if they leave of any reason, ever. Plus an annual fee twice what an American citizen pays, also covered by the employer.
These are minor fees if the employee truly has vital skills that simply can’t be found in any American worker.
Is the big stinky elephant in the room the fact that our educational system can’t even produce moderately skilled workers and we have a segment of society that is lazy.Millions of Americans are sitting on their collective arses sucking on the Obama EBT teet.