US to hike H1B visas, merit will count for green cards

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44. Democrats supporting this absolute POS bill WILL get me to leave the Democratic Party!!!

This is absolutely corporate whore crap!

I and many other tech workers in my profession as American workers have suffered unemployment and lowering of our wages over the economic downturn. And over the decades this has kept our wages down.

And this affects foreign workers too, as they are kept in as indentured slaves as a part of this program instead of being encouraged to get real green cards or apply for citizenship to work here. The latter two encourage them to ultimately be more a part of our American system, where they invest in it and therefore want to not just treat this as a temporary stop to return home to a society a 10th of our cost of living and use larger wages (but still lower than ours here) there, which IS why Bangalore is now numerically the tech capital of the world instead of Silicon Valley now in terms of tech employment.

If you want us to return to leadership of the world in terms of the tech sector like we used to, we need to stop letting these corporate shills take advantage of this CRAP!

I enjoy working with foreign workers, so I don't want to see them kicked out just to be an "all American" work force. That's a reason I moved to the west coast. But I want to see those that come here make more of an investment in being in this country and be able to compete on an even playing field and participate in our society's government, etc., and for us American workers not to have so many of our jobs go away to slave labor.