Obama using immigration reform as umbrella to eliminate your skilled job via H-1Bs

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21. that concern makes sense

The way the visa works is that companies have a job opening and they solicit these foreign workers to fill that exact position and the worker is granted the visa. So, I can see where this proposal is sort of a back door and it makes sense that folks who argue against the visas in the first place can't support any more expansion of foreign workers.

Many H4 dependents, majority women, are consigned to being unemployed once they move to the U.S. In their home countries they were often high-earning, largely independent workers. But after moving to the U.S., they’re unable to work or even open an individual bank account. They’re ineligible to get a social security number and find it prohibitively difficult to get a driver’s license. Their rights have been compared with those of women living in some of the most oppressive parts of the world.

H1-B visa restrictions and financial dependency limits an H4 abuse victim from getting a divorce, alimony, or custody of children. Immigration laws render H4 spouses defenseless at the whims of their husbands, who have the power to change her status to an undocumented immigrant.

I would argue that if someone is good enough to import for their labor skills, at least have the decency to treat them and their family like you would anyone else. If you're going to allow a couple to come into the country and IF you're going to allow one of them to work, it makes sense to allow the other to work legally. If you don't, they'll probably work illegally, but having them here and not working isn't helpful. As long as they are here, the best thing for America is that they are being productive. It's best that they be doing something useful and then paying taxes like other workers.