Immigration Bill Passes the Senate, Includes More H-1B Visas

An anonymous reader writes "While the landmark immigration bill (full text PDF), which recently passed the U.S. Senate, is being hailed as bringing crucial reforms that will vastly improve the state of immigration in this country, there is a provision in it that is seeing relatively little discussion: section 4101, a 'market-based' increase in the amount of H-1B visas for skilled workers. 'The pitched arguments of both sides, which are likely to resurface in the House when it takes up its version of an immigration overhaul, cloud a complicated reality. There is little empirical evidence to suggest that foreign engineers displace American engineers as a whole. If anything, one recent study suggests, the growth of immigrant workers in American companies helps younger American technical workers — more of them are hired and at higher-paying jobs — but has no noticeable consequences, good or bad, on older workers.'"

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Discrimination...

[Rockoon]

Did the Senate pass another bill that would discriminate against specific countries where many people desperately want to come from, particularly Mexico and China?

The "Diversity Visa Program" passed in 1990 does exactly that, as it forbids people from particular countries from qualifying for 50000 Visa's annually.

..of course when the GOP tried to end this program, the Democrats called the Republicans trying to end it racists.

Notice how nobody turned around and called the Democrats racist for supporting the obviously racist program.. but hey.. its got "diversity" in the name.. and diversity is good, even if you have to discriminate based on shit like skin color.