This article is short on facts. As a high skilled temp immigrant in US (from India), I follow these stories very closely and it is sad to see such scare mongering articles based on pure imagination!<p>1) Diversity lottery needs to go. IMO it's purpose was to find low skilled immigrants who'd often become taxi drivers or food cart owners. Most of these industries that relied on DV immigrant labor have been disrupted and the new incoming DV immigrants have fewer jobs. If not stopped, the US itself has a brewing problem with unemployed new low skilled immigrants.<p>2)for people from India and China, abolishing h1b and EB green cards and replacing it with merit based system will be a zillion times better. Current system of giving 20,000 green cards to Indians, 20k to Chinese and 20k every other country, is highly discriminatory and leads to many many sufferings that Americans don't (want to) realise. Hope Trump admin abolishes h1b, L1b, EB green cards and replaces the whole thing with a merit based immigration system.<p>3) iirc Trump's rhetorics against legal immigration that his voters are concerned about, is primarily the h2b visa, which was expanded under the Obama administration, thus regularising the illegal immigration from Mexico into legal one (correct me if I'm wrong here).
Either his voters liked it when there was more illegal immigration so the labor would be cheaper, or just that right now there's a lot of competition they face for their jobs and want to reduce h2 b visas.<p>US economy is changing a lot in terms of automation, AI, and machine learning, thus reducing the need for a lot of cheap immigrant labor, while increasing the need for high skilled labor to stay competitive with Tech giants from China. Which means, the US immigration policy needs to adapt to it ASAP.<p>I wish politico and alcorn.law dug into these points instead of writing click baity articles to score points against Trump.
To be honest, the current system is so dysfunctional that this may even be an improvement. It is shocking to me that only 10% of our immigrants have gotten here though merit. There was an article on nytimes recently about the Canadian immigration system, how successful and popular it's been, and how this is largely the result of a system that heavily priorities immigrants who are highly skilled and can contribute the most to the economy.<p>I distrust Trump just as much as any other liberal, but even a broken clock can sometimes be right. Any moves we make towards a Canadian model of immigration, would be a great improvement over the status quo.<p><a href="https://nyti.ms/2ugNBLH" rel="nofollow">https://nyti.ms/2ugNBLH</a><p><i>"Those admitted to the U.S. on the basis of merit have accounted for less than 10 percent of all legal immigrants over the past 15 years</i>"<p><i>"The legislation would, for example, increase the number of green cards — which allow for permanent residency in the U.S. — that are granted on the basis of merit to foreigners in a series of categories including outstanding professors and researchers, those holding advanced degrees, and those with extraordinary ability in a particular field."</i>
Misleading title. Bill has nothing (so far has been reported) on H1-Bs and if anything, EB based GCs seem to be getting a boost. What's been cut in the <i>proposed</i> bill is family based immigration. And anyway, this is very very very far from becoming law.
This article is an interpretation of original reporting done by Politico [1]. From the original article.<p>"legislation would also mark a broader shift away from the current immigration system, which favors those with family currently in the U.S., toward a merit-based approach."<p>"Those admitted to the U.S. on the basis of merit have accounted for less than 10 percent of all legal immigrants over the past 15 years"<p>"Trump praised the virtues of the merit-based models of Canada and Australia"<p>1: <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/12/trump-legal-immigration-cuts-240478" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/12/trump-legal-immigra...</a>
This will send shockwaves through corporate America.<p>I was at a Capitol One office last summer talking to their engineers. It was over 90% H1-B visa holders.<p>Either they have to open foreign offices in other countries for talent or hire American citizens.<p>It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
I wonder why these changes are so welcomed by low-middle skill labour. Do they simply not see the big picture of what brain drain does to the total sum of opportunities?
I'm the only person on my team with American citizenship, but my teammates are all so talented. And nice. It makes me sad to think about the stress and insecurity these changes could cause them.
I had acquired a green card a few years ago, then it got revoked b/c I hadn't settled quickly enough in the US; I'm sure my subconscious was somehow at play at that time. Today, I certainly wouldn't make any effort to acquire a green card again.<p>Of course this is anecdotal. But what's not anecdotal is the fact that this country has been going south for quite some time now (even if living in the US, you may not realize it), which is why this destructive movement will prove hard to stop.
Thank goodness.<p>The Indian H1B folks have over run DFW. I was just told today that one of the H1B folks is going full time and the company is doing the paper work to make it happen (Green Card). It's a shame because they could have certainly hired a local person or a kid out of school but I suppose they can pay this person a pittance in comparison.<p>H1B program needs to to be done away with. It is being gamed and no longer serves its real purpose.
Republicans are "afraid" of unknowns. People, places things. It seems to be wired in. They are not really racists, just they are "afraid." Probably goes back to ancient days. Who is that stranger? Do they carry a disease, will they take my wife, etc. Why take a chance?<p>While Democrats seem to welcome the unknown. Take that chance. Lets just take a leap. WTF, life is to experience it all. And then we die.<p>Seems that we are really not ready to live in urban areas yet, with all these foreign "tribes", amazed we all do.<p>Conservative friends: OMG that food is so spicy, how can you eat it?<p>Liberal friends: Give me more spice! Pile it on!<p>I'm an old WASP, pile on the spice, drop me off where I don't speak the language, can't figure out the food, toilet paper? What's that? Life is so short, I'm ready to just take any chance.<p>Mars? Sign me up, one way is better.<p>:-)
and then the rise of the remote empires began.<p>I am sure most companies will find a way to hire talent remotely. The positive side of this act would be that huge companies will start to think about hiring people remotely. Which would mean improved practices in managing remote talent.<p>and frankly I think its overdue, the tools are the technology is there, why the do you need borders to impede your company's progress.