We need tighter controls on H1-B, not looser controls and higher numbers, so we are truly only bringing in very-high skill specialists instead of line technical workers. For any billionaire to claim we need this labor, when so many Americans are out of work and hurting - including technically-skilled workers - is truly a cruel, pathetic scam.
I was foreign contract worker in Japan for 14 years. They do their equivalent of the H1-B visa program right there. No set quotas for business, just a requirement that they pay foreign contract workers at least 10% more than the going wage.
It has a wonderful effect on limiting the number to those who are actually worth more than native workers doing the same job. When I was no longer worth the premium, they moved my family back to the U.S.A. including business class airfare and two cargo containers full of household belonging acquired during our time in Japan.
A side benefit for native workers is that the average wage level rises for industries using more foreign workers. Guess what that does to the supply of native workers?
You don’t get to be a billionaire by worrying about little things like ethics.
High skilled specialists being brought in is a joke.
There is nobody that reviews the compatibility of foreign degrees. The US government flatly says on their websites that they don’t engage in accreditation of foreign degrees.
As it currently stands, acceptance of a foreign degree can be by an interested body. So, when you’re told you’re being replaced by a PhD, then it’s probably true that the Pakistan sleeper agent actually does have a PhD.
It’s just that no one might really care where or how he got it, and the body approving it might be an industry group put together by the people who want H1B visas.