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Maybe Obama will be smart enough to start handing out green cards to anybody with an H1B who can hold a permanent position for two years. I'd much rather emplo
by bwd 17y ago
Maybe Obama will be smart enough to start handing out green cards to anybody with an H1B who can hold a permanent position for two years. I'd much rather employ somebody who's motivated enough to leave their home country in search of opportunity.
- jimbokun 17y agoThat helps you, but does it help Obama (assuming Obama's goal is to get re-elected) or the median U.S. voter?
- mquander 17y agoIn 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.
- roc 17y agoObama 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.)
- ajju 17y agoIt's unlikely. Most democrats oppose this (protectionism) and many republicans oppose it as well (anti-immigration stance). It's lose-lose for immigrants.
- bwd 17y agoRegardless of whether politicians "support" it, I expect that most of them know that it's really good for the country in the long term. That's why I said that I hope Obama, who's been all about change, will have the brains (and the balls) to actually do the right thing.