Why does the US still issue H-1b visas when we have engineers and computer programmers, unemployed?
Because the Uniparty's corporate masters want to further fatten their wallets by decimating the American middle class.
Or was yours a rhetorical question? ;-D
The H-1b visa program is used to lower wages of Americans. Simple as that.
The H1-B is the visa which TED CRUZ plans on having FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND more of. And that's just what he says, so you can count on a million---to start with. These are the GOOD jobs.
Every city has THOUSANDS of either laid off, let go and replaced by Indians, recent college grads--who are ready, willing and more than able to do these jobs.
“Why does the US still issue H-1b visas when we have engineers and computer programmers, unemployed?”
Because people like Ted Cruz in the Senate has supported it because their “campaign donors” (read: bribes) told them to.
(Ted Cruz wanted another 325,000 H-1B foreign tech workers to come here this year.)
It’s easier to manage a person without many options, such as H1-b’s. They only will include citizens when they are on equal footing with the Third World.