I would love to think Cruz has had a metanoia, but his own words seem to work against that. The H1b program was not designed to bring techs to “generate jobs” and grow the economy. And he must know that. How could such workers do that? The program was established to allow employers in the U.S. to fill jobs with foreign workers temporarily when the could not find a qualified American
worker. Not happy with Cruz yet.
That, my good sir is horesehit. H1-B visas allow American and foreign companies to operate in the global economy. No question the program has been abused, especially during the lawless Obama administration. The program was never intended to replace a single American worker and it ought never do that when properly managed and administered.
I think the idea is that if a company can’t find workers, it’s going to have to downsize or go out of business. But if it finds qualified workers, it will be able to do a good service, pick up more clients and then expand. So if the H-1B worker helps that company pick up a new client, the company might need to open a new office and hire a broad range of U.S. workers to support it.
While I’ve seen a study purporting to show this effect, it was only one study, and its methodology was too dubious to believe its conclusions.
In theory, it would definitely help the economy to bring in workers to do jobs that Americans truly aren’t available to do. How often that is ever really the case, or whether that can ever truly be enforced, I’m not sure. But it definitely didn’t hurt us bringing in Albert Einstein from Germany in 1940.