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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Immigrants in the hi tech sector are creating hundreds of thousands of jobs a year:
Some 40% of Fortune 500 firms were founded by immigrants or their children. So were the firms behind seven of the ten most valuable brands in the world. Although the foreign-born are only an eighth of America’s population, a quarter of high-tech start-ups have an immigrant founders.[/quote]

There's a big difference between an immigrant moving here to start a business (and create jobs) and someone being used as a pawn in a labor cost reduction system, which is what the H1B program has become.

Originally, the H1B program was to bring in talent that could not reasonably be found domestically, so companies are forced to bring talent in. Today, the overwhelming majority of H1B hires are doing jobs for which many local workers are available.

[b]The solution is to put a minimum salary requirement for all H1B hires. [/b]If you really can't find someone locally to do the job, clearly you are in need of a highly specialized talent for which a $150k+ salary should be a small price to pay. This would keep H1B hires back to their original purpose: to hire highly specialized talent that cannot be found locally.[/quote]

That's already required. I think the issue is more that companies are submitting workers for say a Developer 1 job and the labor cert comes back at 50k. In reality you have a Developer 5 and that is how the company uses them.[/quote]

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