Which particular problem do you think should be addressed? Corruption within a particular visa category? Without getting long-winded, I don't believe you can reform government programs that can be taken advantage of in the first place. If one bureaucrat or politician does things honestly, what's to guarantee the next one won't be dishonest?
The best thing to do is to scrap all the visa programs like EB-5 (e.g. green cards for sale), L-1, H-1B. They were designed as cheap-labor vehicles by the lobbyists who dreamed up those categories by 1990.
Now the US government has given visas to those with "extraordinary" abilities, but what is considered an "extraordinary" ability? Those of a foreign professional athlete playing in the NBA? A medical doctor? An engineer? What sets one applicant's skills apart from those of another candidate or an american worker?
The best solution would be for all countries to be left alone (no more wars) so their populaces can focus on economic development in true free markets and trade with one another to build peaceful relationships.
My pleasure, it's fun to debate other politely over the internet. I find conservatives to be a little more even-tempered, even when I disagree with some of them. Like everyone else, I may lurk on twitter, but the interface is too annoying to deal with. You also all have a lot of snarky assholes posting gifs too instead of writing coherent thoughts because they are lazy. You're better off staying away from big tech websites like Facebook, Twitter etc. entirely if you want to find normal people to talk to.
If the H-1B visa program and other similar visa programs aren't going to be scrapped, the next best thing to "reform" them would be to raise the minimum salary for H-1B visa workers far above the $60,000 threshold to avoid going through the burden of proof that no other qualified permanent resident or US citizen applicants could be found.
Her proposed measure for allocating H-1B visa based on the highest salaries offered, rather than it being randomly probably had a lot of other poison pill amendments that no immigration-reductionist GOP representative or senator could support. I haven't heard much noise about it since.
Leaving countries alone isn't too idealistic. In fact, it's the simplest solution to chose from. I think you're confusing globalism with globalization (e.g. international trade).
Handing over law-making decisions within your country's borders to an outside body like the UN spells trouble. Other countries can just screw you over in committees. It's much easier for countries to trade on a one-on-one basic. That's why Trump publicly renounced trade pacts like the TPP in favor of bilateral trade deals and neutered the WTO appeals court.
Which particular problem do you think should be addressed? Corruption within a particular visa category? Without getting long-winded, I don't believe you can reform government programs that can be taken advantage of in the first place. If one bureaucrat or politician does things honestly, what's to guarantee the next one won't be dishonest?
The best thing to do is to scrap all the visa programs like EB-5 (e.g. green cards for sale), L-1, H-1B. They were designed as cheap-labor vehicles by the lobbyists who dreamed up those categories by 1990.
Now the US government has given visas to those with "extraordinary" abilities, but what is considered an "extraordinary" ability? Those of a foreign professional athlete playing in the NBA? A medical doctor? An engineer? What sets one applicant's skills apart from those of another candidate or an american worker?
The best solution would be for all countries to be left alone (no more wars) so their populaces can focus on economic development in true free markets and trade with one another to build peaceful relationships.
My pleasure, it's fun to debate other politely over the internet. I find conservatives to be a little more even-tempered, even when I disagree with some of them. Like everyone else, I may lurk on twitter, but the interface is too annoying to deal with. You also all have a lot of snarky assholes posting gifs too instead of writing coherent thoughts because they are lazy. You're better off staying away from big tech websites like Facebook, Twitter etc. entirely if you want to find normal people to talk to.
If the H-1B visa program and other similar visa programs aren't going to be scrapped, the next best thing to "reform" them would be to raise the minimum salary for H-1B visa workers far above the $60,000 threshold to avoid going through the burden of proof that no other qualified permanent resident or US citizen applicants could be found.
Silicon Valley, congresswoman Zoey Lofgren has proposed such a measure a once, but considering she used to work as an immigration lawyer and is in the pocket of big tech, so I am suspicious of her motivations (after all she is the lead author of HR 1044...) .
Her proposed measure for allocating H-1B visa based on the highest salaries offered, rather than it being randomly probably had a lot of other poison pill amendments that no immigration-reductionist GOP representative or senator could support. I haven't heard much noise about it since.
Leaving countries alone isn't too idealistic. In fact, it's the simplest solution to chose from. I think you're confusing globalism with globalization (e.g. international trade).
Handing over law-making decisions within your country's borders to an outside body like the UN spells trouble. Other countries can just screw you over in committees. It's much easier for countries to trade on a one-on-one basic. That's why Trump publicly renounced trade pacts like the TPP in favor of bilateral trade deals and neutered the WTO appeals court.