Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow Bolder

Re:Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow... by jayd16 on Sunday June 12, 2016 @02:37AM (#11886946)

Speaking totally from a selfish standpoint, these policies against immigrants don't make sense for the American worker either.

H1Bs lower the wage of American tech workers because it fills the workforce with those who can't ask for more.

Cracking down on illegal immigrants just forces them underground away from the ability to demand workers rights. This puts the American worker, who demands minimum wage, safe work places and overtime at a disadvantage.

I don't claim to know what the perfect policy is but as it stands the systems are set up to benefit the employer in every case.

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Re:Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow... by Bartweiss on Monday June 20, 2016 @09:49PM (#11942973)

I don't think I've ever heard this point made about H1B in particular.

Giving employers a way to shackle workers to a specific job and salary is bad from virtually every political perspective. It's anti-competitive (what kind of free market association is that?), it's anti-immigrant (obviously), and it's anti-labor because it artificially drops market prices.

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