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Re:Google, Facebook, Amazon May Be ‘Antitrust Situation’ by kart23 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @08:20PM (#17881972)
Just wondering, how is immigration not merit based right now?
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Re:Google, Facebook, Amazon May Be ‘Antitrust Situation’ by majos on Thursday August 30, 2018 @08:36PM (#17882049)
From last week's issue of The Economist [1]:

"Of the 1m green cards (permanent residence visas) issued [in the US] each year, only 15% are granted because of the applicants' skills, notes John Dearie of Startups USA, a pressure group; in Australia the figure is 68%."

[1] https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/08/25/governments-ne...

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Re:Google, Facebook, Amazon May Be ‘Antitrust Situation’ by sharkmerry on Friday August 31, 2018 @12:28PM (#17886857)
Thats just green cards though it seems. doesnt mention H1B's, etc
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Re:Google, Facebook, Amazon May Be ‘Antitrust Situation’ by mjevans on Friday August 31, 2018 @03:31PM (#17888137)
I would rather have 0 H1Bs and all those numbers converted straight to green cards so that immigrants were able to join unions and otherwise compete without fear of being sent to some other country just because they had even a minor disagreement with their current employer.
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