[timewarrior]

I agree with this. While most people blame Republicans, it's Democrats who have been the biggest enemies of High Skilled Immigrants.

There were many situations in the past 8 years, where laws could be passed to benefit High skilled immigrants. However Democrats always said that either you have Comprehensive Immigration Reform or nothing.

I worked with someone senior from FWD.us. Apparently it was created to make sure that there is unlimited H1 but no Green Cards (especially for Indians who are most impacted by this and are a decent part of workforce at FB, Google, MS etc). Apparently Democrats promised that they if they move their cause to support illegal immigration, Democrats would never let the Green Card situation get fixed for high skilled immigration. Due to this FWD.us completely shifted focus from high skilled immigration to illegals.

[galieos_ghost]

Tech companies don't want H1B to become citizens because then they would have no leverage to drive down wages for software engineers. They want indentured servants, not citizens.

[timewarrior]

Agreed! People who think Companies wont go this far, need to look no further than the wage suppression agreement between Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

[sangnoir]

> There were many situations in the past 8 years, where laws could be passed to benefit High skilled immigrants. However Democrats always said that either you have Comprehensive Immigration Reform or nothing.

Am I right to say your argument boils down to the Democrats tent being too big for your liking, and you would prefer them to have catered to High Skilled Immigrants? Unfortunately for you, the Democratic party has been a "big tent" party since FDR - that's their political schtik. I think you should have expected more from the party that supports "job creators" like you (or maybe not quite like you).