[AreaMan]

If they cut all the H1Bs and cut off the means for legal immigrants to enter the US, then the companies can just hire in legal entities outside the US.

I have no problem with intelligent immigrants to the U.S. but that era ended with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 which allowed unlimited chain migration of the world's underclass.

[Cronos]

What are you trying to say? First you say that you don't mind intelligent immigrants. Then you say "no, that era (of allowing intelligent immigrants) ended in 1965", then contradicting again you say you don't want unlimited chain migration of the world's underclass.

What are you trying to say? That we allow folks who come to the US to get their Masters and Phds etc to stay on, or that you don't even want those people?

[swarthyguy]

So, you have two issues.

One is the illegals, who don’t compete with H1 type jobs, perhaps in the tourist industry on some of the other work visas.

Second, intelligence, if the H1 by itself isn’t at least an indicator of technical skills(your opinion may vary depending upon the particular vagaries of h1 bodyshop salesmanship), then these are pretty much the very people you want.

Check out the makeup of PhD level employment in America, many of them are foreigners who found their skills very lucrative in the USA, they were allowed entry often through an H1.

Not a mindless free immigration type myself, my career got outsourced during the first REPUBLICAN instigated wave of outsourcing when BushOne began the H1 program.

It was all rubberstamping then, I know, because I moved into the bodyshop business from being a mainframe systems techtype.

[brytlea]

Chain migration really is a big part of the problem.