The H1B issue: Yes, American workers, YOU DO QUALIFY FOR THAT JOB.

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7. There is NO shortage of qualified americans, only a corporate desire to pay less than market rates

The H1B program is a fraud. There is no shortage of qualified Americans.

If companies were willing to pay the wages, or indeed invest in the on going training of their staff, there would be no need for the program.

In fact, one problem from the failure of US companies to hire and pay the staff they need, is that that this ACTIVELY DISCOURAGES new engineers and other highly trained staff from entering college in these fields in the first place, because they see they will be outsourced or undercut in their wages.

The program actually creates their own problem.

I love the argument that supply and demand set the prices, except that corporations actively work to undercut wages whether is via the import of nurses, engineers or farm labor.

Pay the needed rates and there will be PLENTY of workers.