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Re:There is no shortage of STEM workers by ksk on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @11:42AM (#11111071)
You are confused as to the nature of this conversation. YOU are the one making the claim "every H1-B is taking a job from a US citizen". Nothing in either of the linked articles supports this claim. They all talk about shortages, but not about _qualified candidates_. They are not the same. Even so, I just explained to you how in obvious ways, even if there is no shortage, your assertion can be proven false.

If your argument was US citizens should always be given priority regardless of their skill, I might actually agree with your position.

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Re:There is no shortage of STEM workers by CoryAmber on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @01:31PM (#11112025)
Your direct quote of what I said is wrong, that is but a clause in a complete sentence. The actual sentence does allow that a small percentage of H1-Bs are being used as intended by the program, but bulk of H1-Bs are not and the H1-B program suffers from rampant abuse and is being used to replace US Workers.

I have asked several times in the overall discussion for anyone to provide any link to any data of any kind which even indicates to any degree that there is a massive shortage of qualified candidates. I have yet to see one.

Given that there is no shortage of STEM qualified people then ipso facto there is no shortage of qualified candidates.

Do you have any evidence at all that you can provide indicative that their is a massive shortage in qualified candidates? Links Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, showing 100's if not 1,000s of positions going begging with no qualified candidates, or HR studies, any published studies, Dept of Labour or Commerce published statistics ... any shred of evidence at all that you can provide a link to?

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