Basically it's tactic to "offload" the cost of education to other countries.
It's weird because they rely on the idea that America is still a desirable place to immigrate to all while doing everything they can to provide less opportunity and make it harder to prosper here.
Yeah will immigrants want to move here if there are no long term job prospects for their children? Because that's essentially what is being proposed here. Skilled workers have options, and will will want to settle where they can have long term stability for themselves and their family.
A lot of countries import skilled labor, but they do it for actual labor shortages, not* just so they can pay their native workforce less.
As always, Republicans are just so fucking short-sighted.
We will come to America to make money because America is still the number one place to squeeze every last penny out of the layer of the pyramid below you, and then go back home to settle down.
I mean maybe, but waaay more significantly he's trying to capitalize on lower costs of living outside of the US.
American workers have a higher education and higher quality of life expectations. Bringing in educated workers of mostly lower quality with lower QoL expectations means he can extract more profit from them by paying them less. And furthermore, it's a drag on productivity by saddling your high performers with a lot of low performers. In my experience it's like 4:1 good/bad performer ratio when trying to leverage h1-b, and I'm being generous. So not only did you bring in cheap labor, but you also neutralized your high performers because they have to babysit and train the same thing 5 times.
This is usually done by outsourcing American workers with foreign labor, but in this case he wants to bring the labor on-shore.
What's funny is, usually the cost of the legal fees to get these immigrants H1-B's ends up costing more than just hiring fresh college grads.
It's just yet another play at leveraging income inequality to further his earnings.
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u/Hosidax 1d ago edited 1d ago
Basically it's tactic to "offload" the cost of education to other countries.
It's weird because they rely on the idea that America is still a desirable place to immigrate to all while doing everything they can to provide less opportunity and make it harder to prosper here.
For instance: USDA butchers moved back to Mexico