The estimate right now is there are roughly 7 million unfilled jobs in the US. Someone has to fill those slots. I’m all for America and Americans first, but it seems to me that if you want to work, you’re working right now. So as long as all Americans who want to be employed are employed, we should let good folks in here to take those jobs.
Repblicans need to be constantly reminded that the solution to a labor shortage is to INCREASE wages. That is how market forces work.
No, we have those people, but they need to be incentivized to move (moving expenses included), come out of retirement, or sanity check the companies for their endless list of job requirements that prevent college grads from applying through automated means, in favor of H1-Bs with limited ability to background check or validate claimed education back in their home countries,.