USCIS is challenging an unusually large number of H-1B applications

Re:USCIS is challenging an unusually large number of H-1B ap... by pmoriarty on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @03:18PM (#15647133)

"practically every damn country in the world does this too, often to a higher degree than the US. So there's a pragmatic question of how to avoid putting yourself at a disadvantage by being comparatively overgenerous..."

A disadvantage or an advantage? It's always seemed to me that people from other countries and cultures contributed very positively to what the US is today.

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Re:USCIS is challenging an unusually large number of H-1B ap... by majormajor on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @05:58PM (#15648494)

Nothing is purely good or bad at every level.

One thing that gets somewhat ignored for political reasons is assimilation/integration. Of course there was never a purely smooth, even, perfect melting pot, and there's a large history of enclaves in America, but today there are parties taking that to a prescriptive rule of "don't culturally appropriate" that feels self-defeating (and just dumb, frankly).

There's also room for a discussion of what good qualities to explicitly promote adoption of for shared values, etc.

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