If my job is so easy to be replaced by a cheap foreign worker as you say, then I need to learn a different skill. I worked for 40 years in American industry, as a mechanical engineer and developer of expert engineering and manufacturing software, and never once faced competition from a H1-B visa worker.
That's because their number were always constrained.
Those constraints are about to be completely removed.
Entire IT Enterprises to be outsourced....outsourcing the outsourcers.
American IT workers accustomed to $50+/hr will be working at the same rate as their Indian and Chinese counterparts...$20/hr.
When they can find a job.
How is this good for America and Americans?
If my job is so easy to be replaced by a cheap foreign worker as you say, then I need to learn a different skill.
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Everyone isn’t born with the same potential level. How about an American citizen who has peaked out as a programmer? Is it right that we allow the company to bring in an immigrant for half the wages? And do you trust the government enough to think that the immigrant will not receive some kind of entitlement? Reality tells me emphatically, “NO”!
H1-B’s are supposed to be for skills that nobody else has. Not for driving down wages of the Americans with the same skills.