H1B mills are gaming the system. What's the corruption rank in the countries where H1B candidates come from. That has a correlation to faked resumes and credentials.
Neither US political party is attempting to disrupt this system, it's just "spend money helping poorer people" or "spend money helping richer people". Red team does this through huge tax incentives for companies and individuals despite the growing national debt. There's no longer an actual conservative, small-government party in the US.
While I'm not advocating or even agreeing with the comment you're replying to, your statement is as overbroad as it can be. In the case of this issue, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see companies (as in companies we've worked in as tech workers) use the H1B system and form an opinion on it. For many of us (and that includes those of us who are hiring managers and/or close to C-level execs) it's readily obvious enough that forming an opinion isn't 'just a feeling' whatever that means. Feelings are invalid now? And 'most' people?
But I'm not seeing a lot of that. What have you seen at some of the companies you've worked at? Can you at least provide one clear case of abuse?
From my end, I work for one of the big tech H1B whales. And the starting salary in the US for a junior position is already above 100k, so that change wouldn't affect my company. I also have never seen the H1B abused. I've interviewed candidates myself, and we pick the strongest we can find purely on skillset, never because a non citizen is willing to work for less.
Is that the complaint? That US companies should hire US workers even if they're not as skilled, as long as they can still get the job done, even though they won't do it as well? Ok, in that case sure, I can see my company abusing H1B then. But I'm not sure we'd want to impose such strict a rule on our companies, seems like it would affect their ability to compete. That's also not the complaint I'm hearing. I'm hearing people are pissed off that we pick equal or worse qualified non citizens simply because they're willing to do it for less.
Isn't this kind of dismissive of other people's views? This seems like you are declaring yourself to be an expert and everyone else ignorant when their views don't align with your own.
People are also informed by their own personal experiences.
I believe that refusal to consider a different vantage point is also really starting to become an issue.
For example, I know nothing about the true nature of how most US companies use the H1B visa. So I read the article, and then read some comments, and I now know nothing more except that Americans are pissed off, because it could be possible that companies are abusing the intent of the H1B visa. But we don't know, and I haven't heard anyone that does, and obviously congress is going to look into it, so why are some Americans pissed off?
Btw, I wouldn't say that if I was told some knowledgeable Americans are pissed off. But I was told some Americans feel like the H1B Visa is being abused, and are pissed off about it. That implies they don't know, it's just a feeling.
I'm curious. Are you aware of any country on the planet that follows your line of reasoning?
I can't see this as a plausible rally cry coming from many Americans, especially those who've traveled our backroads in the past 20 years and seen the decrepit state of small town USA. They want those jobs.