Re: “Encourage high skill immigrants”
I’m sure all the American citizens who are software engineers support that idea.
Their median pay, adjusted for inflation, has not gone up for 15 years.
I have a better idea:
America should open its labor market to ANY foreigner who contracts for a job paying more than $250,000 a year.
That’s called “meritocracy.”
Everyone else in the world, please stay home and vote Socialist in your own country.
Can't argue with that.
If there was actually a shortage, the median pay would have increased.
I saw a want-ad on dice.com about three years ago that looked to be for an engineer to develop/test the software that runs GPS receivers - not the part that says "turn right in 100 yards", the part that actually determines the position from the satellite signals.
They were willing to pay $33 (no benefits) per hour.
In Los Angeles.
That's not even new-grad pay.
They were clearly working on building a case to bring Apu in from India on an H1-b visa.