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

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46. When their families live with a cost of living ONE TENTH of what we as American families live at...

... it IS imbalanced. If they work for even half of what we make, they put away 4/5ths of what they would make back there on a temporary basis to build up a bigger savings by working here and they return back to India with a bigger nest egg. Meanwhile, we all have to make half of what we are worth here or not work in this profession. THAT is what is keeping Americans from pursuing this profession, especially when the cost of education for young people now is far more prohibitive for our students than it is elsewhere around the world.

Those who want to work here should be working here with the idea of BECOMING A PART of this country. That is the tradition of this country. And therefore their family should live here and be a part of the American tradition so that they are as invested both financially and spiritually in to making this country a better one. People favoring this system are not xenophobic. They are realistic about what should work for everyone.

Those who want to support the idea of global freedom to work everywhere should START by making sure that we have an even playing field everywhere, and therefore have global trade unions, have labor rights and environmental protections, etc. be rolled in to all of the "free trade" agreements we are signed up for, to ensure that people everywhere can live on a living wage where they reside.

Our cost of living being so much higher here is partly due to us having such more wealth at the top that influences the costs of our society being higher, even though more and more of us are living in poverty. That imbalance needs to be corrected too.