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

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53. BOTH of these forms of slave labor are wrong...

And BOTH is what the corporate elites want to be able to engage in to help their race to the bottom to reward themselves at the top. We should be fighting BOTH of these methodologies of *using* workers here in this country, as well as giving tax credits for companies moving factories overseas to areas where there is no environmental laws and people work as slaves. This is the world of "virtual slavery" that we are now living in.

We might want global freedom of movement of people to go from one country to another to work, etc., but this is not something that will make this a better world for this to happen in. It only depresses people's rights and wages globally, American or another nationality.

You want to help attack this global world imbalance of people working. A better piece of legislation to do this would be to STOP agricultural subsidies (that were originally set up to help family farmers that largely don't exist any more) to big corporations that DON'T NEED IT and turn our taxpayer's subsidies here in to lower costs for them to dump corn products below cost in other countries like South American countries, forcing farmers there to sell off their farms because they can't compete to those who would set up companies that help outsource work down there. Those farmers become workers at those companies because they have nowhere else to make money, and if international companies "race to the bottom" to another country and pull out of some of these Mexican maquiladoras to get cheaper labor elsewhere, then where do those out of work farmers go? They come here! And the corporate elite LOVES all aspects to this equation. We start by stopping subsidizing their exports that create this problem to start with.