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lumberjack_jeff

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4. The people with the skills americans don't have? They were given those skills in US colleges.

Reply to MH1 (Original post)

Thu Nov 13, 2014, 01:58 AM

Nov 2014

Most H1B visa holders have transitioned directly from student visas.

But I wish we'd spare some of that concern for blue collar workers who have been displaced by cheap imported labor for decades.

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Keystone XL "jobs" vs. H1B jobs [View all] MH1 Nov 2014 OP

Ok not the only one but it looks like not many of us. nt MH1 Nov 2014 #1

OH, give me a break, I talk about it all the time and keep writing my reps all the time. hollysmom Nov 2014 #6

I was in grad school around Sillicon Vally in the mid-nineties. Knew lots of tech folks. salin Nov 2014 #2

Yes. The purpose of the H1B visas is to hire lower cost employees. pnwmom Nov 2014 #7

The problem with H1Bs is it harms both sides JonLP24 Nov 2014 #3

The people with the skills americans don't have? They were given those skills in US colleges. lumberjack_jeff Nov 2014 #4

Many of those students were accepted to US universities because pnwmom Nov 2014 #8

Would it be better if we handed out citizenship papers at college graduations? Recursion Nov 2014 #5

It would be better if we didn't give a preference to these students pnwmom Nov 2014 #9

I'd think so JonLP24 Nov 2014 #10

Something like that. Canada's immigration rate is more than double ours and high tech pampango Nov 2014 #11