How many of the key engineers on that rocket are H1-Bs?
I’ll bet there are some, no doubt.
Personally, I am not innately against a program to bring foreign talent into our sphere of influence, but not the H-1B as it is currently constituted.
First, as it is, I think it is just stupid. It is mostly an idiotic lottery system, and there should be nothing “lottery” about it. Zero. We should consider the best, and only the best for technology related. How I do not know, but there should be a way. And if technology is not the target for an H-1B applicant, there should be other standards as well.
Secondly, I believe in the issues of national security and the safeguarding of intellectual property, of which the current program protects in no way at all.
The two of these shortcomings combined are fatal, IMO, and need to be fixed. How, I don’t know. But anything would be preferable to what is going on now, and that includes shutting the program down.