Yeah, that’s the ticket! Strictly limit H1B applicants with university degrees but turn a blind eye to the tens of thousands without education who walk across the border undocumented.
Typical incompetent logician.
He compares the British “Highly Skilled Immigrant” program which gives visas to top talent from business schools, to the H1B visa program which includes merely BA/BS recipients.
When I stop seeing American companies laying off 40+ year old engineers and computer scientists in favor of foreign or younger workers, then I’ll be in favor of opening up the H1B visa program.
Overall this may be the case and we should NEVER EVER reject brilliant minds.
However, right now the job market is deteriorating. So as long as people are willing to relocate (NOT an easy thing to do) many of the jobs can be filled.
It is foolish to be for FREE TRADE and then reject HIGHLY SKILLED work force. You are simply trading away resources to places where highly skilled workforce can be assembled.
GOP needs to get its act together.
The H1B Program is nothing more than the Congressional Fat Cats playing up to Big Business. The tired argument that the US doesn’t produce enough engineers, IT professionals, etc. is put forth so that Big Business can keep salaries low. There are a lot of Americans who graduate from quality engineering schools with degrees, but can’t find work because some H1B has undercut them.
And as job shops go, they have a pretty monotone supply, with one basic aim....drive down the cost of churning out boilerplate code. The kind that really doesn't take a lot of creativity, but does require some knowledge.
The kind that plenty of yeoman developers of the pale persuasion in Silicon Valley used to do, before they were laid off and ended up managing storage units (hint: real person behind that line, not myself. Vietnam vet, to boot).
BTW...wonder what Mr. Slaughter will say the day the Journal decides to dump him for someone from Bombay?
Maybe he can get a job writing the biz page for the Fargo Times.
Go ahead and call us xenophobes. Who gives a rat's butt about name callers, anyway.
Oh, I would say that
Xenophobes are breaking into our sovreign country all the time...
There’s about 35,000,000 of them now...
They are all illegal aliens...
They are also anti-immigration...
And most of them hate American citizens and murder, abuse and bully American citizens...
They make demands for bennies that American citizens cannot get...
And they demand H1B visas and more...
And they steal good jobs from Americans, with or without the HiB visas...
More knowledgeable, educated, motivated, immigrants.
(Way) fewer ignorant, low skilled, immigrants who only want access to the gravy train.
It's not 'immigration', it's 'which immigration'.
(PS - if a US college educated engineer is forced to compete with an Indian or Taiwanese engineer (likely, at least in part, educated in the USA) - so be it.)
These heroic “Captains of Industry” understand the laws of supply and demand except when it comes to prevailing wages, then they “cheat” and undercut the American middle class by importing H1b wage slaves. Some system we got here. Only in America(And I mean that, this CAN ONLY HAPPEN in America).