NO! They are supposedly recruited to fill a specific job that a company claims there were no Americans available for. Once they leave that job, their visa expires and they go home.
And for that company to claim no Americans, there needs to be a public record and scrutiny. They should be required to show the resumes of the hundreds of people that might have applied and explain why each is not qualified. Put the onus on the company to prove no American was available and give American workers the public ability to dispute that!
> NO! They are supposedly recruited to fill a specific job that a company claims there were no Americans available for. Once they leave that job, their visa expires and they go home.
That’s just one of the rationales for worker visas. Your particular solution however is faulty because it would make the visas equivalent to indentures. A population of indentured employees could also cause harm to the citizen workforce. Employers could use firing as leverage against the visa worker. For example they might extort the visa workers to do work that normally would pay more but with a different job title. This in turn could be leveraged to drive down pay for citizens in both job categories. Similarly for working conditions, white collar crime, etc.
Micromanagement of business to prevent these negatives is likely to be inefficient. Better we just avoid enabling a lever for unscrupulous business practices.
JMO, but I’ve got 40+ years of experience competing with H1 visa abuse. The abuse is real, but some of the people I’ve worked with are awesome and we would be the worse for them not coming. I’d rather find the best solution that puts a damper on visa abusers and employer-gov’t collusion against citizens.
It’s probably best if we make worker visas an honest path for countries to send us their best, keep the function honest, and try to keep them as legal immigrants. W/honesty required from the gov’t, employers, and visa workers. Then we don’t have to debate the necessity/public good of worker visas, which is a 55-gallon barrel of worms.