From the platform: Global competitiveness will increasingly require an entrepreneurial culture of cooperation and team work. Making the best talent part of our team is the rationale for the H-1B visa program, which needs updating to reflect our need for more leaders in science and technology while we take the necessary steps to create more of them in our own school systems. By complementing the U.S. work force with needed specialists from abroad, we can make sure American companies and their jobs remain here at home.
OK, my prediction is that they (both parties) will try to increase the H-1B quotas to numbers far greater than the increases (if any) of new jobs for engineers, scientists, etc. And if I am correct, that would decrease the opportunities and wages of engineers, and discourage US students from studying engineering and science. Which would feed a vicious cycle in which they would increase H-1Bs even faster.
I say continue the H-1B program, but don't make the quotas so high that you take jobs from US citizens.
The platform says lower taxes on business. If they can do that in congress it will help, but I'm afraid that even if the jobs are not there, they will keep pushing for unlimited H-1Bs.
50 years from now, I hope we don't have a country in which workers lack the technical skills to compete in the world economy, and lack the skills needed for our own defense.
Defense? Why worry about defense when we are going to be annexed by Mexico. /sarcasm