Its a bad practice, trying to change high tech skills into a commodity. First, we need to change our labor laws so it makes hiring more profitable and less punitive to hire someone.
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Let me see if I understand this ridiculous and out-of-control HB situation correctly: We import highly-skilled technical workers mainly from such Asian countries like India, China, Taiwan, Pakistan. and South Korea so that we can compete in the world market with highly-skilled scientists and technicians in Asian countries like India, China,Taiwan, Pakistan and South Korea. it makes no sense.
My question is this: If the best and the brightest scientists and technical workers in India,China, Taiwan, Pakistan, and South Korea remain in their countries, then what level of workers is the United States importing from those Asian countries?
Such distorted logic and reasoning on the part of American technical firms like Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook makes no sense.
Have these greedy technical companies forgotten that America was made great by such programs like apprentice programs and internships? How do these technical companies think that American plumbers,electricians, and air-conditioning technicians learned their skills: Through apprentice programs.
We should encourage, maybe even demand, that technical companies like Microsoft, Apple, and FaceBooke develop strong apprentice and intern programs so that they wouldn't have to depend so much on HB technical workers from India, China, Taiwan, Pakistan, and South Korea.
I believe that the HB program should be immediately and drastically reduced or abolished completely.
My point is this: The HB program has done more harm than good in developing of technical skills among future American young people. The HB program is slowly destroying rather than helping America's ability to compete in the global market.
The severe problem of getting American young people to pursue technical skills goes something like this:
1. Schools throughout the country are working hard to encourage young people to enter the technical fields like working with computers.
2. Many young Americans are enthusiastic about entering the good-paying technical field.
3. But these same students look around and see that they have to compete not only with their fellow Americans but with technical workers imported from foreign countries, mostly Asian countries---for instance, you don't see a flood of HB workers coming from,say, Spain and England.
4. So what do these bright students end up doing? They become discouraged. They give up on their dreams to entire the fast growing amd good-paying technical field, and so they decide to go into some line of easier work where they don't have to compete with foreign technical workers.
5. Then what happens? What happens is that the United States demand for technical workers ends up caught in a vicious circle.
6. The vicious circle goes something like this: Now that more and more smart American students are discouraged from pursuing studies in the scientific and technical fields by such horrible self-defeating programs like the HB program, American companies claim that they can't find enough skilled American workers to meet their increasing demand for skilled technical workers.
7. So, argue American companies, they have no choice but to beg Congress to allow them to import more and more foreign technical workers from such Asian countries as India, China, Taiwan,Pakistan and South Korea so that they can compete on the global market with the highly skilled technical workers in Asian countries like India, China, Taiwan, Pakistan, and South Korea. Huh? Am I missing something here?
8. And round-and-round we go with no end in sight to this terrible, self-defeating HB foreign workers problem.
9. Meanwhile, executives at technical and rich companies like Microsoft , Apple, and FaceBook run all the way to the bank to deposit all the money they saved by bypassing highly-qualified American technical workers for foreign HB workers.
10. Yes. Let's drastically reduce or abolish the HB foreign workers program so that we can give American youths the chance to develop the technical skills that America will need for a long, long time.