Which is worse: H1B Visa Holders or Illegal Immigrants.

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57. It's complicated.

Equality of opportunity - an idea with which most Americans are sympathetic, even if we're a far cry from realizing it - is a reasonable goal for all of humanity, not just for people born within the US. In the long run, many, many things need to change.

In the short run, I'm against the current arrangements that pit certain workers here against those in low-wage countries but protect others from that same level of competition. For example, American business leaders successfully lobby for trade agreements that allow them to produce manufactured goods in foreign countries with cheaper labor and import them; meanwhile, the AMA successfully lobbies to reduce the number of foreign-born physicians allowed to enter the US and practice medicine. This is hardly the "free market" at work - this is a specific set of policies that drives American wages down in some areas and props them up in others. Just as policy produced this imbalance, policy can correct it.