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Re:Trump’s Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home fo... by pm90 on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:39AM (#13522001)
> There is nowhere near the kind of market demand for developed world tech workers in developing world markets.

I think the suggestion from the parent was that if you prevent i.e. Google from bringing in H1B workers, they will simply hire them in their India office.

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Re:Trump’s Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home fo... by gutnor on Monday January 30, 2017 @03:36PM (#13524767)
That's what I meant.

The market may not be global from an employee point of view, but that's an oxymoron, that has never been the case ever in any field. ( not saying it is a good thing )

Without any protectionist measure, it just remove one of the many resourcing options for the large US companies. It is unrealistic to think that the job will be automatically reassigned in the US when those companies are already spread all around the world.

All I'm trying to say is that suppressing H-1B is probably good because abuse is never good. However, I don't believe it will magically solve the problems of stagnating salaries without something else.

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