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It's not an issue to me whether they hire competent or incompetent H1-B Visa workers, the issue for me is why they're hiring them at all when a lot of people in their fifties with excellent credentials in the IT and Engineering fields can't find work while employers whine about not being able to find people. So, Cruz wants a five fold increase in the number of H1-B Visas issued but obviously doesn't care that the H1-B program is not only used as a tool to drive down wage costs, it's widely abused.

I worked on a contract with DEC and the folks here on an H1-B Visa were a mixed bag of good, indifferent, and poor, just like the situation with a lot of contracts where there were no H1-B workers. There were three guys with a Visa and working while two more were working while they waited on their Visa approval, and three more were working while they waited to have their Visa extended.

Basically, there were three people counted as being part of the H1-B program while in reality there were eight people working in jobs someone from this country wasn't even considered for. I contend not only that there's no shortage of skilled people in the fields the H1-B Visa program apples to, it also makes it more likely that there will be a shortage of people in those fields by suppressing wages.

None the less, people who yell about the free market are all for short circuiting the wage signals that are the trigger for increasing the number of people attracted to the fields they claim there's a shortage in. IOW, people claim to be all in favor of capitalism and free markets but fall all over one another to get in line for the government run abortion of the very market system they claim to be defending.

That sort of abuse is typical of every single Federal program like the H1-B Visa program. People have to be deliberately blind to pretend that while millions of people are illegally streaming across the border the same degree of abuse isn't intrinsic to the H1-B program. People supporting the H1-B program are getting fat and happy by making a buck off of screwing their fellow Americans out of jobs, that's the bottom line no matter what sort of trash they wrap their personal greed in.

After all, the Brits had many a self-rightous argument for forcing China to import opium which proves that those who see nothing wrong with shafting others to make a buck are never short of arguments for why what they're doing is wonderful if looked at properly.