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Yes, then those specialties will have to pay Americans more, rather than dump cheap foreign workers into the labor market. It's by design.

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So the moment that someone wants to hire a bilingual child care worker who has a fairly obscure second language (vs. English/French, English/Spanish, English/German, etc.), you think it's perfectly reasonable to 10X the pay rate?

Ditto if a museum is hosting an exhibition of art from some tiny country, and wants a few docents who can read the inscriptions?

Ditto if ...

I couldn't care less for the incentives of a corporation. Why are they allowed to slight the environment for their benefit but I cannot for my own? Am I not represented in this country (nobody is, your votes can't compete with consolidated bribery)

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