I don’t understand all the ins and outs of these H1B visas.
But, have always wondered why they even exist.
My thinking is — naturally, Americans would be hired for jobs here in America. And if there are shortages in some categories, then we should be training our own people to fill these jobs, not importing immigrants. I don’t understand how it’s legal to import immigrants to do any job in America.
Then again, I admit I don’t understand all the ins and outs. But this story sounds to me very fishy. It sounds to me like this should be illegal, if it isn’t illegal, to terminate American workers and import people from other countries to do the same job. Clearly this is not a case of a shortage of skilled people, because they already had skilled Americans doing the jobs before.
'But one agency, the U.S. Department of Labor, wrote back last week and told the lawmakers that large H-1B using firms "are not prohibited from displacing U.S. workers" as long as they meet certain conditions, such as paying each H-1B worker at least $60,000 a year.'
$60K!!!.....