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A comment on H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads. Parent comment

Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by ajmurmann on Saturday January 26, 2019 @01:19AM (#19005105)
Why do we care about countries rather than individuals?
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Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by usaphp on Saturday January 26, 2019 @12:29PM (#19007249)
Because there is an yearly limit of how many people can get h1b visa -> green card in USA. If there was no limit per country then there will be a disproportionately large amount of a single nationality immigrating to US. You want to have diversity of immigration instead.
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