H1B visas have been slashed. In some personal correspondence godless thought that this was kind of ass-backwards (my words). After all, there are fewer H1B workers than unskilled legal & illegal immigrants. So what gives? On this blog we’ve talked about outsourcing a lot. But the fact is, service sector outsourcing has been 1) mostly in call center and low level coding 2) dwarfed by the decline in manufactoring employment.
But, most people in positions of power might have a relative or friend who is a IT worker, perhaps a senior programmer that couldn’t break into management, etc., so these are the people getting the attention. As for unskilled workers, those in power would benefit from looser immigration laws, cheaper nannies, gardeners, construction workers, etc. And it seems entirely plausible that most lawmakers have no family members that work in menial occupations where they would compete with unskilled immigrants.
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