Skilled Immigrants on Why They're Leaving the U.S.

Re:Skilled Immigrants on Why They're Leaving the U.S. by jimbokun on Monday July 27, 2009 @08:59AM (#725762)

That helps you, but does it help Obama (assuming Obama's goal is to get re-elected) or the median U.S. voter?

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Re:Skilled Immigrants on Why They're Leaving the U.S. by roc on Monday July 27, 2009 @10:06AM (#725839)

Obama will be painted as weak-on-immigration by the right regardless. So there's no up-side to him ignoring the larger immigration problem or H1B in particular.

(H1B should be a short path to a green card. Letting them be taken advantage of and then sending them home is a bad policy.)

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Re:Skilled Immigrants on Why They're Leaving the U.S. by mquander on Monday July 27, 2009 @09:07AM (#725769)

In the long run, one might suspect that it helps most workers (being part of the economy in general) to have a larger pool of skilled labor doing productive work.

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