“Increase the H1-B’s by 500 percent?Why would any American kid want to go to college with the job market swamped with foreign workers?”
It’s a chicken-egg thing. A lot of our kids can’t major in the hard sciences or engineering because our dumbed down schools don’t prepare them for it. So we need to import that talent. Which creates less of a demand for American students to go into those fields.
But the real culprit is liberal control of education.
Schools were bad in the 70s-80s when I went.
But you can’t hold smart people down.
The smart kids don’t have a problem excelling. They always have and they always will.
The average to dumb kids will easily be hoodwinked by schools into doing and thinking very stupid things.
The smart kids can be indoctrinated to be immoral or lazy, but if they’re talented with math and science, you’ll do well in those fields.
The elites just want those smart engineering/science kids to have to work for peanuts their whole life, that’s all.
There is ZERO need to import workers into America.
It’s a complete lie composed by those who want to destroy the American economy for all but the power elites.