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

Posted by Soulskill on from the no-word-on-more-h-1b-mastercards dept.

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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  1. Here are the rules by The+Cat · · Score: 0, Troll

    There is little empirical evidence to suggest that foreign engineers displace American engineers as a whole.

    This is blatant propaganda.

    If you use the word "empirical" in a sentence for no reason, or start a sentence with "actually" you are a dickbag.

    Thank you.

  2. Stop being stupid, H1Bs are good for the US. by goruka · · Score: -1, Troll

    Reality is that there is plenty of skilled people and companies everywhere around the world, and that nothing prevents investors, companies and corporations in the US to hire them instead of Americans companies, nothing prevents them to travel to the US looking for jobs (then then go back to their country with a juicy contract), and nothing prevents the money leaving the US banks to foreign banks.

    I've been to plenty of business conventions in the US and most business developers were foreigners. Yes, they don't even need to be in America to steal your jobs.

    So, do you want money and jobs flying away from your country, or do you want talented people settling in America, where the standard of living is higher, and help retain the jobs there?.
    I can understand some people being pissed because they can be replaced by foreigners who are equally talented who don't pretend to earn as much, but the net result is that more talented people allows more business to happen in the US, and more business in the US equals to more American jobs in the long run.

    This is why your government is pushing for this, so stop being paranoid.