American business in on the verge of a boom, and we already have a shortage of skilled tech workers (and having a zillion Lesbian History majors doesn't help matters). So, it doesn't make sense to abruptly reduce our source of qualified skilled workers.
There's shortage if the goal is to pay skilled AMERICAN tech workers slave wages.
Wages are flat for IT and they have been flat for 20 years. There is no shortage. You are clueless.
There is not any shortage of tech workers. There enough laid off tech workers to take every H1B position with more Americans still looking.
I’ve had plenty of contact with the H1Bs and most have no true advanced tech knowledge, many bring in bogus qualifications, and many of them will lie and cheat to get by.
Kill the program and there are more than enough qualified Americans to fill the need.
Exactly.
A lot of people are not aware of how our university system works.
Even at the undergrad level, a significant segment of our science and engineering students are either foreign students or the first generation American children of foreign immigrant.
Most come from Asia or India, but with a smattering of European, Canadian, South American, Aussie and Africans students.
At the graduate level, in many science and engineering programs, foreign students are the majority of the students
Americans are just are not opting for the difficult and rigorous disciplines in the numbers they used to, and many who do are the children of H1B parents who have become naturalized Americans.
At the PhD level, Americans are the minority of both the students and faculty.
This is why the H1B visa program was started.
Without the H1B program, America's brain drain of top foreign students returning to their home countries would become a crisis.
And yes, H1B students are cheap labor ( up to 50% less than an American of similar qualifications) that tolerates working conditions and life style no American would tolerate for the first 3-5 years of employment while they get established in the US. In the Silicone Valley, H1B visa is almost a tradition in the mold of what internship used to be for medical students transitioning to become doctors or boot camp is to soldiers.
Like all government programs, there is serious abuse of the program by unscrupulous and exploitative companies and the the H1B visa program needs serious reform to stop the abuse, but H1B is vital to our nations ability to recruit the best and brightest.
Good point....the college idiots are the problem.
Fhere is no shortage. None. 94 million out of work. Some of them trained their replacements.
There is no shortage of skilled tech workers. There is a shortage of skilled tech workers willing to work for minimum wage.
There is no shortage of tech workers.
And a nation is not a business or market place. It’s a family.
Sad to see globalists are still infesting the conservative movement with their failure to grasp what a nation is.