And none of the right wingers apparently can explain how defunding schools and making college impossible to access is suddenly going to turn into an abundance of American-born tech workers.
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This is inaccurate. H1B visas are for skilled workers with at least a bachelor’s degree. Companies sponsoring skilled workers thru H1B are require to pay at least the prevailing wage for the position that they would pay a citizen for the same position.
This fails to acknowledge that the solution to this rule is to keep hiring H1Bs, and slowly ratchet down that “prevailing wage” with cheap labor. This is what has been happening for the last 20 years. Now Americans won’t work at that wage because it won’t pay the bills.
I work at a university that has an entire degree program dedicated to pumping out H1Bs at volume. We produce ~300 IT grads/semester. All H1B, in the US, and paid for by future US employers. How much more streamlined can it get?
But then the locals have the same opportunities. In the US, they are destroying public education and making tertiary education available only to the top economic 1%. The point here is to import foreigners to become virtual slave labor, and at the same time drive down wages.
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There are a limited number of people with tech skills that companies worldwide compete to hire, even countries with free education.
Scotland has free university education, we still import skilled immigrants (including from the US)