Comments on: Lawyers' words are kerosene on the flaming H-1B bonfire

Pittsburgh lawyers advise on how not to have to hire an American worker.

[System Tyrant]

Let 'em in.

Personally I think we should allow all of them in and as soon as we pack America full we hike our happy ***** to the countries they came from. Then we can start America 2.0.

(That's sarcasm for those who couldn't tell.)

[Newspeak finder]

A land of immigrants

Surely the USA is a nation of immigrants already.

I thought your country used to be proud of that.

[mandarinmusing]

typo

You forgot to add an "m" in immigrant, just thought I would let you know!

[UtahBruteForce]

H1B Visas and Immigrants

It's obvious that the United States of America is being overrun by Mexico and India without a single shot being fired in anger. Additionally, even though we're not on 100% friendly terms with China, almost all our products are made there (look at all the recent problems), our technology is now being developed in India and most of our manual labor is being done by illegal Mexicans. If we continue to import talent via H1B visas and provide immigrants more favorable status, there won't be anything left for Americans to be/do except tourists; but without income, tourism would be hard-to-do!

Let's lock down our borders, disallow future H1B visas and start get back to a US first policy!

[JadedGamer]

Paranoid much?

1. Mexican illegals generally perform jobs Americans think beneath them.

2. For H1-B there is a requirement that they cannot find an American with the required skills.

But sure, if you want to create a procetionist communist society where the State decides your job and your education from a planned economy's needs, go right ahead. If you want to move manufacture of goods back to where it is more expensive to perform, so that the cost of goods shoots up, go right ahead. (Of course, since the State would set both prices and wages, it's not much of a problem.) But good luck finding someone who wants to live there.

Or you can accept that business is international and companies "shop" their workers where it is cheap, just like you shop at cheap chain stores instead of the local more expensive ones...

[joelam888]

Unemployment rate at historical low, so who cares?

You have a job, I have a job, all we have a job, and a good one, too.

[baldguy61]

All we have a job

In China, one of the best paying and sought-after jobs is the MacDonald's burger flipper position. It pays more than a college professor's salary and the waiting list is about 200 applicants deep. Give the current offshoring situation 20 years and that's what we'll be looking at in the USA. Welcome to the global economy.

[joelam888]

Unemployment rate of software developers is close to none: 0.9%

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