You merely copy-paste data from numbersusa. It is not proof of anything. It is a claim by an advocacy group.
The text in the gov website says J category is mostly au pairs, doctors, teachers, summer lifeguards and high school exhange students. J category people are not taking anybody’s job.
US brings in about 130,000 H1 visas annually (not per month), in addition to unskilled agriworkers etc. This thread was about legal skilled workers, e.g. mainly H1 people. Total number of all people given some sort of visa or green card may approach 125k per month (counts in family members of visa recipients, au pairs, exchange students, investors etc).
Yes, they are taking people's jobs. The J-1 Visa Program is for foreign medical graduates who wish to pursue graduate medical training in the United States. J-1 Physicians, also known as Foreign Medical Graduates or International Medical Graduates, are physicians from other countries who have sought and received a J-1 exchange visitor visa. The visa allows holders to remain in the U.S. until their studies are completed. At the completion of their studies they are expected to return to their home countries for two years before applying for a permanent visa in the United States. A J-1 Visa Waiver waives the two year home residency requirement and allows a physician to stay in the country to practice in a federally designated Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) or Medically Underserved Area (MUA) if sponsored by an interested U.S. government agency. State government agencies may also sponsor J-1 physician waiver requests which are called Conrad State 30 programs.
US brings in about 130,000 H1 visas annually (not per month), in addition to unskilled agriworkers etc. This thread was about legal skilled workers, e.g. mainly H1 people.
You seem to have difficulty understanding the table. Yes these are TEMPORARY WORK VISAS. People on H1B visas can work up to six years and then if sponsored by their company get a green card. Then they are no longer temporary.
The thread may extoll the virtue of bringing in skilled immigrants, but we don't have a merit based system of immigration. It is based on kinship. The vast majority of the 1.2 million legal immigrants to this country are poor and uneducated. They will cost us more in benefits than they contribute. Robert Rector estimated $20,000 per year per immigrant headed family.
Total number of all people given some sort of visa or green card may approach 125k per month (counts in family members of visa recipients, au pairs, exchange students, investors etc).
You seem to be missing the forest for the trees. The number that should get your attention is the 951,247 PERMANENT work permits given in the form of green cards to working-age immigrants over the 12-month period. Does it make sense to bring in this number of permanent workers every year despite the fact that 25 million Americans are looking for full time employment? Most of these people are unskilled and uneducated. 53% of immigrant headed households are on welfare. We are importing poverty and unemployment. Something very dramatic is happening is this country and most people fail to notice it. Our immigration policy bears no relevance to our interests and needs.
The U.S. adds one international migrant (net) every 36 seconds. Immigrants account for one in 8 U.S. residents, the highest level in more than 80 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history. And by 2050, one in 5 residents of the U.S. will be foreign-born.