[pembrook]

> people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic but are struggling to find work because of the abundance of H-1B holders

That’s a straw man. Those people do not exist. Look at the data.

There’s currently 18 million unemployed Americans. The majority of pandemic related job losses are low wage retail, hospitality and restaurant workers.

There’s a total of 500k H1b visa holders in the US, the vast majority of which are in IT.

There is very little (if any) overlap between those groups.

You aren’t suddenly going to make more money by kicking out all the immigrants. That’s not how the economy works. Those H1b holders are also consumers who spend a majority of their salaries on taxes and products/services in the US. Kicking out 500k people would further hurt unemployment in sectors hit most by the pandemic.