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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The way to fix H1Bs is simple: raise the minimum salary to reflect that you are hiring people with rare talents and skills. H1Bs should have very high salaries.

Another improvement would be to expand it to all fields. Why do we single computer programmers out for this abuse and not lawyers? Actually, we know why--most politicians are lawyers. [/quote]

This was going to be implemented in 2021 but democrats / Biden nixed it.  You know that mythical party that supposedly helps US workers makes it easier to replace US workers.

https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/talent-acquisition/uscis-replaces-h-1b-lottery-salary-based-selection

The lone requirement for “H-1B dependent employers” to first recruit Americans is bypassed by a loophole that allows these companies to pay their foreign workers $60,000 a year instead of seeking out Americans. Based on the high cost of living in areas where most H-1B employers are located and the average experience level of the foreign workers, that $60,000 salary is significantly lower than what a true market wage would command.

H1B is ONLY about hiring cheap , disposable workers. It has NOTHING to do with best and brightest.

The law needs to require that aliens be paid 150% of the normal wage for any of these jobs. a measure like this was adopted in Australia and it pretty much killed the desire for an alien workforce.

https://cis.org/Law/How-Many-Americans-Will-Companies-Missed-Out-H1B-Lottery-Hire

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Unfortunately, paying 150% of the normal wage, means they would just pay native workers 66% less.  This is one of my issues with the system is the way they go about recruiting and setting these wages with LCAs.  They do it by "testing" the market.  Listing jobs that don't exist, then running sham interviews to prove that you don't exist or that you will take wages less than you would otherwise.  Depending on where they run the listings and what not, how they interact with you and so on.  The businesses do all of this without the naive applicants knowing.  The naive applicants are led to believe that there are jobs there.  Recruiter: "Do you want to work for Google for $40 K, wink wink you'll get your foot in the door."  Applicant: "Sure! click"

It's almost like being in a Union.  If the H-1b applicant's wage is set to be 150% mine, they'll never give me a raise, because all the H-1b in my job category will also have to get a raise.  I say almost like being in a Union, because at least in a union would have a representative.  As it all of these companies, they have all kinds of lawyers and HR specialists, they all make sure their paperwork is filled out correctly for the LCA or PERM, but I have no representation in the process.  There is a regulation, that these companies can't tell me what they are doing.

I think I prefer Trump's proposal, make it a bidding war, then require companies to pay me 100% of what they pay h-1b's.[/quote]

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