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by kevin_thibedeau 2634 days ago
The US has no obligation to provide benefits and services to non-citizens. If the guest worker program wasn't being horribly abused it would be worthwhile. As it stands, H1-B needs a wholesale revision to serve its stated goals.
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>The US has no obligation to provide benefits and services to non-citizens.

The conversation is not about about benefits and services to non-citizens, but about whether enforcement is being targeted at specific immigrant populations based on white supremacist ideologies. It is about the false, widely circulated talking-point that this administration simply seeks to push people toward legal pathways.

>If the guest worker program wasn't being horribly abused it would be worthwhile.

This is a claim that requires justification. Any tiered labor system that does not guarantee a level legal playing field for all workers is abusable.