Cruz was not looking for cheap labor...he was looking for gifted or already educated professionals that can benefit the US. Why would you intentionally ignore that?
The cheap labor issues and or misuse of the H1B program can be dealt with through legislation, but it’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater when every country in the West has a equivalent for this program.
I see this as a knee jerk isolationist move by some and I reject it. We are talking about a small portion of the Visa system, and I agree that the entire thing needs overhauling, but not eliminated.
We simply need to regain control, and once we do, we can use the tools we have like a hiatus, or in H1B we can require that a corporation justify it’s wages and needs, and the protections of current employees if it wants to participate.
To be flat out against H1B is foolish IMO. Like everything else in this current regime, it has been exploited, but we can stop that. If you don’t believe we can, then what’s the point in continuing the farce that is the once venerable USA.
Let’s just kill it and be done with it. A failed experiment.
As well, the increase in H1-Bs to 325,000 was an offer in compromise for REDUCING overall legal immigration, by cutting back unskilled labor by 500,000, resulting in an overall reduction in LEGAL immigration by 240,000. This proposal STOPPED the open borders GANG OF EIGHT bill.
CRUZ STOPPED THE OPEN BORDERS GANG OF EIGHT!
Bump. Good post.
We have gifted and already educated Americans, but they cost more.