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> OTOH, in low COL markets (eg. KC) this eliminates H1-Bs from consideration for most entry-level positions.

Isn't that the point? I thought H1-Bs were supposed to only be used when the skill set required could not be found locally. This does not match up with entry-level positions unless there are no programmers in the area.



Well, do you want the price to reflect the wage of an average entry-level employee, or that of a talented one?

I'm not sure the US should have as a goal keeping every foreign grad here.


What I want is to fix immigration so that people can move to the US, become citizens, and stay. The goal should be to not even need the H1-B program.


That sentiment - we don't need to keep every foreign grad - is basically stack ranking applied by the government instead of big business.

Put another way, the government is basically forcing companies to adopt stack ranking for certain classes of employees.


I'm not sure that the comparison to stack ranking is apt, I am not saying we only want x% of grads, but I think it is reasonable to say that the US wants to bring in people in high demand as evidenced by their salary.




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