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b). H1Bs are a problem simply because they represent a 'ticket' into the country. And, having gotten in [legally] many of those people just never leave. Keep in mind, that only recently has the H1B cap fallen back down to 65k/yr - back around 2000, it was up to 195,000/yr and has slowly decreased since. What it represents is, the desire by the corporate elite to undermine people's living standard in even highly-paid professions. Of course, these same people say it is necessary to 'be competitive', 'reduce operating costs', etc. when, much of the time, it is simply to boost profit margins (eg. is not an absolute necessity). Previously, undermining wages of highly paid workers was, for the most part, 'off the radar' - not any more.
Isn't the reason that we have the H1B visa for high skilled jobs when there're no US citizens or legal residents available ? Should we deny a visa to a foreign surgeon who can save lives in US hospitals when we have a shortage of medical personnel in the US ? This is what the H1B was meant to be for, am I right ? I know same answer that I gave to Kate, but I like to have it answered :D
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According to statistics I've acquired from FAIR (originally compiled by the USCoB - Census Bureau) data from the years 1999-2000 estimates NC had an illegal pop. of approx. 200k+ Since the growth rate in NC and places like where I live (OR), has been very robust, well, a doubling of that 7 year old estimate is probably quite accurate. Other and newer estimates by orgs. like the Pew Hispanic Center generally confirm this approx. 2x increase over that period (by what I have seen anyway)
But but, NC is on the other side of the country. I can understand that you've many illegals in OR, I live in Sac and there're many illegals here and Or is not that far from where I live, only less than 300 mi, but NC is almost 3,000 mi