Every H1-B visa is an opportunity for a skilled high-wage job a US citizen doesn't get.
Oh don't worry. Those high paying, secure jobs are "jobs Americans won't do!"
The flip side:
Every H1-B visa is an opportunity for an American business to bring a product to service to market at a lower cost with a better chance of success.
Let's say it one more time. Of course we will be labeled here as isolationist for our stance,
And a chance for a skill or a design to be introduced right here at home for us to sell abroad.
There's always the military. They're not outsourcing the chance to die fighting for a way of life our Congresscritters won't even protect.
The Administration's objective is to convert skilled high-wage jobs into low-wage jobs that Americans don't want to do.
It is also industry specific. I work in R&D and it is virtually impossible to find U.S. workers with advanced degrees in our field of research. With the work we do, there are just a handful of research groups in academia who produce graduate students in ourfields of interest. With advanced degrees, the amount of specialization is staggaring. You can't take a PhD in one area and expect them to work in something outside their narrow field. We have advertised for PhD's in a specific area and had NO responses. A few bachelor's holders and oon Masters holder applied, but they didn't have the qualifications. We had to bring in people from Europe that had the education and expertise.
The big problem, in my mind, is that education in the hard sciences just isn't of interest to American kids in the numbers necessary to maintain U.S. industrial research endeavors. THe bottom line is that there really aren't enough American scientists to go around.
I am aware that there abuses in the IT sector, but that is not the case in chemistry, physics, or material sciences. Because these people are in demand we actually offer H1B's a salary much higher than the prevailing wage just so we can attract the talent we need. And IT workers would require 8 years of retraining to become qualified in those areas.
Whaaa! mysterio cannot compete. WHaaa. The Goverment owes him a job, they have to do something for poor little 5th raterers because they are Americans! Whaaaaaa!
I am so tired of this argument.
H-1B visas are temporary visas for those with a Bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field. They are not easy to get and they are only good for 6 years. there is much an employer has to do to hire an H-1B worker, there cannot be any strikes, salaries to be paid to the H-1B worker have to be posted onsite in 2 conspicuous locations making them accessible to all US employees. Those employees who don't like it can report the problem to the DOL and are in fact encouraged to do so.
What you should be more concerned with and bitching about is that there are "prevailing" wages for H-1B employees and usually they are higher than what is being paid to US employees. The U.S. employees should be demanding that the same "prevailing wage" determinations be used across the board so US workers aren't being paid less than the H-1B counter-parts.