[dilyevsky]

> I'm a lifelong Democrat (and socially and fiscally liberal) and I see this as an issue of social justice for American workers.

Why not take this one step further and make it “white Murican workers”? Or how bout “white straight males of aryan descent”?

[biocomputation]

<< Why not take this one step further and make it “white Murican workers”? Or how bout “white straight males of aryan descent”?

American worker doesn't mean "white Murican worker". It means American citizen. American citizen isn't a synonym for Caucasian.

You're doing that thing that people do when we talk about H1-B. You're conflating opposition to H1-B with racism and xenophobia.

It's not racist or xenophobia to say that American workers should have first crack at economic opportunities in their own country. As noted in my original remarks, this is something we have to talk about if we're serious about addressing things like income inequality and equal access to economic opportunity.

I think it's utterly wrong to give the best economic opportunities to foreign nationals when there are imminently qualified US workers.

[dilyevsky]

> It means American citizen.

orly? so you're excluding GC holders as well?

> You're conflating opposition to H1-B with racism and xenophobia.

I'm conflating it with nationalism. Which it is. Nationalism and racism/xenophobia and other isms/phobias come hand in hand.

> I think it's utterly wrong to give the best economic opportunities to foreign nationals when there are imminently qualified US workers.

You think wrong.

[freejulian]

There's nothing wrong with being against laws that weaken labor's bargaining power. Productivity and wages decoupled a long time ago. It's about time the working class started fighting back. It's obvious corporations want cheap labor, and claiming there's a "skill shortage" is an easy way to achieve that.