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

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156. Being born outside the U.S. affords you SPECIAL PRIVILEGES of being able to pay less...

... for everything to live the same decent life we might have once expected here. Is that "clearly and completely wrong" that they pay less than we do and aren't "equal" to us in what they have to pay to live in their countries?

We pay more to commit to living here permanently. But you don't complain about the unfairness we face in terms of what we have to pay to live here not being equal. You JUST complain about how we don't like having our jobs taken away because they no longer pay a living wage to live here when we WANT to live here where we have been citizens.

Most of us here are NOT blaming the foreign workers that come here, but are blaming OUR GOVERNMENT and the oligarchs that own them for allowing this PIECE OF SHIT garbage called an H-1B program that is just a means to get them cheap labor and not a means that it ostensibly is to get "unique combinations of skill sets" that they can't hire here. If there truly were some skill combinations that American workers don't have, then arguably companies should be willing to pay MORE to hire an overseas worker to do that than they pay American citizens for that work here. Instead statistics over and over show that H-1B workers collectively work for far less than American workers here doing the same job. The quotas should stay small to meet these needs, and companies should be willing to pay extra to hire for such situations, not less.

We need to fix our government to protect the average person more. American auto workers for example are also paid far less than German auto workers in a country where by law companies above a certain size have to have half of their board representing the workforce of that company, in effect institutionalizing what would be union power here in to the company itself.