Although the political sympathies of the author should be praised, he has failed to do even the most basic research on the subject of immigration.
First, he does not seem to understand that “legal immigration” is not the same thing as a H-1B temporary work visa.
Second, he has been tricked, like tens of millions of other Americans, into believing that the H-1B visa quota is 65,000.
Actually, the quota is 85,000 - per year. Automatically renewable for six years! So that's 510,000 H-1Bs right there.
Plus, universities, government agencies, and non-profit labs can hire an unlimited number of H-1Bs that do not count against the quota. And those visas can be renewable up to 10 years. How many H-1Bs do they employ? No one knows, because there are no centralized records!
Plus, there are at least 100,000 more work visas disguised as “Student” or “Travel” or “Training” visas.
Anyway - I'm still glad this guy wrote the article.
He works for National Review, which has been quietly pro-Amnesty, pro-massive legal immigration, and pro-massive work visas for the last ten years, so this is a little good news, for a change.