I have posted articles that prove HiB visas are not needed.
Its Chamber of Ho’s who want cheap tech workers, and won’t pay American’s salaries. Its phoney BS , we have lots of STEM people with experience and comming out of colleges.
This is my only issue with Ted Cruz. He should read the articles.
Ann has good solid research and we can stop all immigration while we get the 94 million Americans out of the workforce back in jobs and paying taxes again.
There are probably many who disagree with you. Most realistic and pragmatic people will say that the H1B is needed, and the issue is about how many H1B visas, or what is the H1B Quota.
To that end, the H1B quota should vary. When the economy expands, the quota should rise. When the economy contracts, the quota should fall.
During the IT boom of the 90s, the H1B quota rose to 190,000 and when that tailed off, the quota fell to 60,000. During the Bush years the economy gradually expanded so by 2004, 05, 06, there was a big push to raise the quota. But it was successfully blocked and didn't rise.
In 2007 the economy headed south and crashed in 2008 so no one was pushing for the quota to rise. It has only been in recent years as the economy has gradually recovered that some are again pushing to raise the quota.
Whereas the H1B professional and technical visa quota is point of contention, the real problem with temporary work visas is reforming the H2A Ag worker visa, the H2B Non-Ag worker visa, and creating a 3rd low skill visa with a longer term such as 4-6 years.
By a weird quick of immigration law, fashion models are categorized as technology workers and require H1B visas to work in the US. Would you deny us Heidi Klum and Giselle Bundchen?