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even when they make 6 figures, live in a tiny apartment with no furniture, and send back their whole paycheck in remittances each month?

or do you mean the old motel in the scenic locale you used to go as a kid, that has since been bought up by immigrants, has AI art peeling off the walls now and has gone without basic maintenance for 30 years?

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Tax for this bracket approaches 50% all in. These are money-generating people.

But more generally H1B and immigration in general is America’s edge. If people stop coming expect us to lose leadership position in most markets

The world without them getting remittances every month from the USA is infinitely worse. War/problems abroad that didn't happen because of that remittances are worth trillions of dollars. There's no better form of "FDI" than remittances. Those who think remittances are bad for America are ontologically evil and may they reincarnate as durian fruit or cockroaches.

People don't realize the alternative to importing skilled labor is to not have someone do that job here. The idea that so many US citizens are qualified and sitting on the sidelines while an H1B takes a higher paying job than they currently have is a fiction.

> The idea that so many US citizens are qualified and sitting on the sidelines while an H1B takes a higher paying job than they currently have is a fiction.

I have worked with a lot of H1B in general enterprise and it makes 0 sense to me why the vast majority were ever allowed in under the program. There absolutely have been exceptions to this, but in general it's been awful.

Yeah, even then.

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