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A common refrain you will hear is "Americans don't want to do those jobs", but what that misses is if you gave a immigrant the same rights and opportunities as a citizen they won't want to do that job either (at the price and on the terms offered). Relatively open ended immigration programs with minimal restrictions are defensible, but this caste system is not.


I am not sure how that is related, but the last part of that phrase is often left out. “Americans do not want to do those jobs at a certain price”

>Relatively open ended immigration programs with minimal restrictions are defensible, but this caste system is not.

Yes, that was my point. The only population benefiting from H1-Bs reduced negotiating power due to their immigration rules is business owners.




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