Why is there no feedback mechanism on the number of H1Bs issued each year? If American citizens are graduating and can’t find a job, certainly we don’t need as many H1Bs.

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lifestyleguru 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is trend in Europe as well. Native population is "too expensive" and "not suitably qualified" while businesses continue importing cheap labour in coaches.

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msgodel 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

We never needed any, but we have no real say in how our country is run so that doesn't matter.

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jmpman 2 days ago | parent [-]

I disagree, but when I see low quality software engineers coming in on H1B, I know there are US citizens who could have done that job. I see Customer Support Managers, Solutions Architects, Software Managers, all with H1B. Any of those jobs could be performed by a US citizen. What the US needs are the higher tier engineers. The ones which are in short supply in the US.

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msgodel 2 days ago | parent [-]

The higher tier engineers come over on a completely different visa. H1B is just a new version of international slave trade but no one wants to admit it because it sounds bad.

	▲	jmpman 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I’ve worked with H1B engineers who vary in skill by at least 2 orders of magnitude. Neither of them are eligible for the “completely different visa”. Yet we keep bringing in the dregs because of the lottery system, and they stay around because of the body shops who are just billing head count.