[HamiltonJay]

This is just another reason Rubio needs gone.. H1B is a completely abused scam. There is no reason to be importing a java or c programmer, there are plenty of domestically skilled available, companies just don’t want to pay.

H1B is just a wage depressor nothing more... it is to skilled workers what illegal aliens are to unskilled.

[ConservingFreedom]

H1B is a completely abused scam. There is no reason to be importing a java or c programmer, there are plenty of domestically skilled available, companies just don’t want to pay.

H1B is just a wage depressor nothing more... it is to skilled workers what illegal aliens are to unskilled.

Exactly! I'd just add that the only thing being "abused" is the facade that was sold to the voters - the real H-1B is working exactly as designed:

H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Replace Americans with Cheap Foreign Workers
H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Pay Foreign Workers Extremely Low Wages

[Vigilanteman]

More proof that Rubio is a putz. FWIW, I worked in Japan 1988-2002 (14 years). Their equivalent of the H1B program was to impose no quota limits, but just require that the company pay the foreign worker a salary premium of at least 10% more more than the going wage for the job.

This simple requirement worked the following wonders:

1. No gaming the system to fire natives and import cheaper foreign workers.
   
2. Better quality of foreign workers because companies had to be more choosy and make sure they were worth the premium.
   
3. Foreign workers who were, for the most part, grateful to their host company for better opportunities rather than being p*$$ed off at it for being treated like chattel.
   
4. Rising wage levels in the industry which, in turn. . .
   
5. . . . made native workers both more hospitable to the foreign workers and more likely to go into a field with rising wages.
   
6. Which, in the long run, lessened the need for foreign workers.

[pierrem15]

H1B is just a wage depressor nothing more... it is to skilled workers what illegal aliens are to unskilled.

Exactly-- all these firms should be sued for wage theft, on behalf of both their American and their foreign workers (who ought to be earning as much).