GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud

Re:GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud by vsskanth on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @09:02AM (#19858417)

> I'm just not sure what a system would look like that doesn't unfairly disadvantage someone.

I imagine USA is a capitalist country, and since we are talking about high-skilled immigrants here, how about ranking these potential immigrants based on their last 5 years W2 income and handing out green cards to the top "x".

I'm sure valuable people are paid more. I don't see how nationality needs to come into this. There is always a Diversity Visa lottery for people from less populous countries.

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Re:GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud by tracker1 on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @10:50AM (#19859319)

Is a medical doctor who lives in a country making half what a janitor makes in another country more, or less valuable?

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Re:GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud by vsskanth on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @11:31AM (#19859766)

The scope of my argument here is clearly based on past income in the US (that's why I mention W2 income).

I'm fairly confident a medical doctor in the US is paid more than a janitor.

Now, you can make an argument about whether a doctor in a rural area is more valuable than a software engineer in SF but there is an NIW (National Interest Waiver) category that can be utilized to grant residency.

Funnily, in the current system, janitors and meat packers (from other countries) get their green cards earlier than doctors and engineers from India [1,2]

[1] https://www.myvisajobs.com/GreenCard/SearchAll.aspx?ST=Certi... [2] https://www.myvisajobs.com/GreenCard/SearchAll.aspx?ST=Certi...

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