It will take a generation or so to produce highly-skilled graduates of our own to participate in our economic recovery. Meanwhile, we have to borrow some of those from other countries.
H-1b is government interference in the free market. Stopping H-1b will push wages up, college kids will start applying themselves in STEM programs and eventually things will even out.
I ve got to disagree. There are a lot of highly skilled people that cannot find good jobs.
Bringing a bunch of foreigners in just lowers their wages and opportunities. Yeah, I know Zuckerberg and those billionaires disagree.
So the solution is to mute the market signal that will cure the shortage, right ?
You keep pumping the same crisis trash that was the excuse for BarryCare rather than deregulating portions of Health Care and allowing the market to work. Either someone honestly believes in the market or they don't and if they do they don't yell, "the sky is falling" and demand that market signals be muted or short circuited.
As I've said before, people who will be near graduating when the next President is sworn in are right now deciding on a major. How how does driving wages for the skills we're supposedly so short of encourage them to go into those fields rather a job as, oh, say a Marketing & Campaigning Shill for example ?
That is pure BS.
There is no skills gap, just a compensation gap. Given the general use of the program is for citizen avoidance (even when the citizen is more than qualified), qualifications excuses go out the window.
If anything, guest worker programs (along with their attendant laws/regulations) must meet their end. If one needs talent so badly, a citizen can be found and/or trained very easily.