[bsder]

Because immigrants have different economic value.

Adding 65,000 day laborers is very different from adding 65,000 engineers.

[dba7dba]

I mean no offense to those 65,000 H1B visa holders but many many of them don't deserve the title 'engineers'. No, not even the title of IT workers.

They are quite often simply bodies being pushed by the outsourcing firms to get fees. Many of these workers brought to Disney had to be trained for months.

[serge2k]

> I mean no offense to

has anything inoffensive ever followed this phrase?

[dba7dba]

Yeah, calling the H1B visa holders such is offensive. But so is how the workers are treated.

[whybroke]

If engineers have more value, then market forces will adjust wages to fill those roles won't they? If that doesn't happen then clearly your conjecture of their relative value must be wrong. Necessarily.

At least that's the story I'm endlessly told.