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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course.  I used to work for a software company that hired Southeast Asians through H1B mills.  It's not that no Americans could do QA or whatever -- it's that the H1Bs would do it at half the price.  They were nice people, but not brain trusts with unique training or skills. [/quote]

Reform to the employment-based immigration system is long overdue, a couple of simple reforms that Democrats could do that would make the party of labor again:

H-1B: Add a labor market test requirement for this visa, to ensure that companies consider Americans first for all jobs in America. Additionally, we believe companies should pay an extra ongoing payroll tax for each H1B they employ, to avoid any cost arbitrage of hiring lower-paid foreign workers.

PERM: Labor market tests should be reformed to require posting all ads on the companies main career website, accept applications digitally via this same website, and have their ordinary recruiting staff review applications according to the same process as all other hiring. Companies should also be required to post open roles on mainstream online job boards like Linkedin or Indeed, and consider applicants for equivalent roles for open PERM labor market tests.

OPT: The statutory STEM OPT visa program that allows graduating foreign students 3 years to work without another visa should be cancelled immediately and entirely, as it unfairly allows foreign students to take entry level jobs that American citizens graduating from college could fill.[/quote]

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