The main reason why the current high-skilled employment-based visa system (aka H1-b visa) is putting more low-wage guest workers onto the path to green card is because it has failed to identify real high-skilled professionals to play key roles in all industries for the economic competitiveness of the US, which is the original purpose of this system and was definitely welcomed by both real foreign professionals and the American workforce.
However since about 2013, if not earlier, frauds flooded the system because of the potential benefits for the Big Techs by acquiring foreign employees on low-wage positions regardless of their skill level and the immigration authorities’ failure to stop this abuse of the system in time, thus, leaving a huge backlog in the queue for green card within a specific group. As a result, this backlog of green card applications includes a significant number of candidates who cheated the H1-b visa system to get whatever jobs and are not high-skilled workers that only work for specific positions in their professional fields.
Before the bill S. 386, the per-country cap can still to a degree control the portion of those who are coming for a low-wage job from acquiring green cards to compete with the US workforce. There is also a chance left for those who really fit the qualifications as high-skilled professionals who will contribute to the growth of US economy. Now the bill S. 386 is easily sneaking through the senate as fast as it can be without a public hearing just because a few companies have enough money and motivation to hire enough lobbyists on the hill, while the organizations like UAW going through tough negotiations and calling strikes for the welfare of US workers in Michigan. I hope we can take some time to educate the public about the truth of the bill S. 386 and its twin HR 1044 before it is too late since these bills are titled with fairness yet ironically rewarding those who have broken the rules and frauded the immigration system in the first place.
The obvious fair resolution for these bills is to order public hearing and debate on them.
楼主: Warald
狗仔卡
