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So would you support an effort to make it easier for foreign engineers, sw developers and physicians to come in to get a legal job in the us? Foreign knowledge workers seem to not enjoy the same sympathy low wage immigrants enjoy, perhaps due to the more immediate threat of job stability foreign knowledge workers pose to domestic knowledge workers, even when this fear hasn't been substantiated.

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Yes, unreservedly. Immigrant workers whose residencies are not tightly coupled to their jobs would drive wages down much less than H-1Bs.

This is why you don't see employers lobbying for easier immigration policy. Instead, they lobby for expansions of the H-1B program.

I think the easiest solution would be just to allow H1-B visa holders change jobs or quit easily. Currently if you want to quit you only have 1 month to find a job which is nearly impossible because you have to transfer the H1-B visa which is the same as applying for a NEW H1-B (only difference is that it does not count towards the yearly cap.)

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