Immigration Reform is equal to more cheap labor import

Many in Congress are CFR members, this may be a outline of what we will see.

Section "Attracting Skilled Immigrants" starts on PDF reader page 102. (Page 82 of report)

The Task Force recommends that foreign students who earn graduate degrees from American universities should be presumptively eligible to seek work in the United States and to receive employment-based visas. The exceptions would be students who come on scholarship programs (such as the U.S. Fulbright scholarship) that require them to return home after their program of study, unless waived for just cause. There should be no quotas on the number of foreign students eligible for work visas.



The Task Force recommends that quotas for skilled work visas like the H-1B visa be increased, but fluctuate in line with economic conditions. Similarly, the number of employment-based green cards should not face a hard cap, but should be allowed to increase and decrease as economic conditions warrant. Under most economic conditions, the number of employment-based green cards should be significantly higher than current levels.

The United States should retain a labor market test for the handful of companies that are heavy users of H-1B visas to ensure that they are also seeking qualified American workers. The United States could even consider restricting the percentage of H-1B workers that any single company could hire. But in general, companies should be free to employ skilled foreign workers without having to jump through expensive and time-consuming hurdles to prove that they cannot find American workers. There is simply no good empirical evidence that foreign workers are depressing wages, even in the skilled fields in which they are most abundant, such as computer programming and software engineering.131 The best way to prevent hiring abuses is for the government to fund and prioritize enforcement to ensure that H-1B workers are paid appropriately and not used to undercut similarly qualified merican workers. In principle, however, it makes no sense to restrict the immigration of those skilled workers who are highly sought after by many countries, and who would bring the greatest economic benefits to the United States.

131. Kirkegaard, The Accelerating Decline in America's High-Skilled Workforce, p. 82.

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As long as they keep bringing in foreign workers, American worker's skills will deteriorate and fewer will seek to learn the skills.