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

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56. "Body shops" have worked around these kind of restrictions for decades...

I've seen hiring managers laugh in how they hired cheap H-1B laborers from these "body shops" that only hired foreign workers so that they can get around paying "competitive wages" paid to American citizen workers, since they didn't have any employees in their employ that were American citizens. And they didn't hire out these workers as "workers" but as "a service" so that the cost of what each employee working at a contracting company couldn't be measured since it was sheltered under the costs of the "service" umbrella that that body shop provided to contracting companies. As long as you leave loopholes that body shops exploit, this program will just grow.

If you force companies to pay competitive wages with what domestic American citizens need to pay for their families and their educations, then the amount of their "need" for H-1B visas would drastically shrink. They then probably would be seeking to moving work offshore, unless we remove incentives that allow them to do that too if they want to do business in our markets as "American companies".

When it takes those who want to be a part of this country and become citizens over TEN YEARS some times to have their citizenship applications moved through the system, then that is where our system is broken. That is what our founders would have wanted encouraged for those looking to become part of the American experience. A sense of investment to become a part of the American dream. Not just borrow some dollars and cents from it to have our wealth move outside of this country and to those at the top of this country.