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Statements from the article such as "Rand pointed out that, only families already approved for green cards qualify for the work visa, meaning the government has already determined there are no Americans who could be working the high-skilled job" make me question the entire program. Really, "no Americans"?, What rocket science project are they working on? Or did they leave out "at the wages offered" part?

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The employer has to post the job requirement and try multiple recruitment channels for 30 days. Only if they cant find another candidate, can they file for Perm. So that specific "Rocket Science project" didnt have any qualified american apply for it. This is a good article to explain the whole process - https://www.usavisanow.com/perm/

When I stop getting South-Asian recruiters bombarding me on LinkedIn asking if I want to work a 1 month contract in Pittsburgh writing PHP for $16 an hour despite living in Texas then I will agree the situation has been straightened out. There are fast-food places offering $15 an hour.

Until then the system is being abused and it's American labor that's losing out, followed by people being abused by the H1B racket. If they want to pay someone $x to do some job then hire them in their home country and outsource it. Or offer the visa to the worker. It's much more preferable for these firms to abuse the system and their "placements" until it's fixed though.

And employers will maliciously comply, they'll advertise their low salary so no one applies, then if people are desperate enough they'll find some reason to reject their resume.

  has to post the job requirement and try multiple recruitment channels for 30 days

... but doesn't have to interview a single Permanent Resident candidate. They can then hire visa holders who didn't even meet the original posted requirement.

Notice how most of those postings allow only mailed replies? Those aren't genuine. What is this, 1985?

I used to work at a H1B shop and the way we got around this was by posting the job for three or so months and only interviewing those candidates who did their undergrad at an Indian university.

Employers are forced to determine average wage for the job description in the area and pay this as a minimum wage to prevent exploitation of foreign labor. This has always been the case. H1 employees are not being paid less than citizens.

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