[JustaCowgirl]

You can’t just kill it, because the H1-B program has led to fewer Americans being trained in technical and engineering areas, and fewer Americans being trained on the job with necessary technical skills. It’s going to take time to rebuild that.

For years we have been providing foreigners with extremely valuable education and training and ignoring development of our own young technical talent. This may help start turning that around.

[central_va]

You can’t just kill it, because the H1-B program has led to fewer Americans being trained in technical and engineering areas, and fewer Americans being trained on the job with necessary technical skills. It’s going to take time to rebuild that.

Bull fukk1ng $h!t. Wages would zoom up like in the roaring 1990's and colleges, IT training schools would boom in response. Stop it with your anti free market BS.

[central_va]

We can’t do enough to boost wages in this country. The constant downward pressure on wages for the last 20 years is what is the real cause in the major shift to the political left.

[Caipirabob]

Yes, you can just kill it. I have personally seen the amount of training allocated to H1Bs. If any citizen had been brought in an trained in this manner, they would easily be capable of fulfilling the role. H1Bs is a conspiracy at best and an insult to all American citizen IT workers.

[NobleFree]

You can’t just kill it, because the H1-B program has led to fewer Americans being trained in technical and engineering areas

Fewer NEW trained Americans, yes - but there are currently millions of under- or unemployed STEM-trained Americans.

We CAN just end it.