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“rest your case” is too funny… this is 8 people, what about 63,992 other yearly recipients of this visa? what an compeling argument you are making (and this is former H1B-er writing here…)


The point is that major contributions to American tech supremacy come from foreigners. Scrapping the H1B program would jeopardize us tech leadership.

Those other 64k people contribute as well. If you want to argue the other side (I don’t know why you would) feel free.


how would you know whether or not american tech supremacy would not be the same without foreigners? of course you wouldn’t so this is silly line of argument :)

the main reason for american tech supremacy is american military budget. and also that is next 876 reasons. H1B program won’t crack top-1000


> how would you know whether or not american tech supremacy would not be the same without foreigners?

We don't know, but we can't afford losing the supremacy.


as long as the “defense” budget is 89.76 trillion dollars we cool, H1B or not…




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