Just Abolish the H-1B Visa

[TBoneTX 49,618]

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Just Abolish the H-1B Visa

 

[...] these titans of American political history forged some of the most corrosive legislative deals that have led to our current national predicament: an unholy alliance of the nation's worst lobbies.

Unsurprisingly, the steak dinners provided by business, immigration, and tech lobbies paid off for their clients when Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1990, the most successful major immigration reform bill of its generation, creating the H-1B visa.  This legislation, sponsored by Sen. Ted Kennedy (who famously and wrongly predicted that the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965 would "not flood our cities with immigrants" or "cause American workers to lose their jobs"), fulfilled the wish list of not only the mass immigration lobby but also America's burgeoning tech industry.  It codified a rotten tree of corporate-friendly immigration reform that created extremely rotten fruit—the U.S. immigration crisis.

Tech corporations began booming in the two decades before the bill's enactment in 1990.  Silicon Valley alone experienced roughly 130% growth in high-tech jobs, the IT industry grew dramatically, and fears began to abound that there would soon be a worker shortage in this rapidly growing sector of the American economy.  Understandably, by the late 1980s, industry leaders wanted to see continued growth in a way that would keep labor costs low and profits high, leading them to sic an army of lobbyists on Capitol Hill to peddle the narrative that a labor shortage would soon arrive and cripple the industry.  Congress fell—and, to this day, continues to fall—for this unproven industry narrative hook, line, and sinker.  [...]

 

https://www.commonplace.org/p/just-abolish-the-h-1b-visa

 

[Boiler 48,906]

I think there is room for a temp work visa now all the different types never made much sense or that it is now seen as a bridging step to immigrate, should also have country caps like EB.