Let me put it this way. If you want to restrict #H1B you are effectively saying the only people who can get green cards and citizenship, EVER, are: (1) people who win a lottery (diversity lottery) (2) people who are related to citizens (family-based visas) (3) people who are married or engaged to citizens (spousal visas).
There are no other immigrant visas.
You’re saying anyone who came here to study can fuck off back where they came from unless they marry a citizen.
What do you think of this proposal?
We should know who's in the country. If we reformed work visas, we could have people coming and /going back home/ if that's what they want - and be allowed to come back without all this rigamarole.
What we don't want is a two tier system of "illegal aliens" and everyone else.
@tuban_muzuru many countries have a simplified ‘if you stayed 5 years and paid taxes you become a permanent resident’ situation. That could work.
@tuban_muzuru that would require getting rid of the country quotas, which is the source of the misery, and probably the hardest (currently people from india / china / mexico / philippines wait extremely long because of the quota system)
The process simply must be managed, which will eventually result in heartache, somewhere down the line.