Hatch Amendment Discussion

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Originally Posted by qesehmk

You or I don't want to be the gatekeeper for how many H1Bs are genuine. There already is a process under PERM for that. Any American person can raise objections to every position being posted as H1B.

Any pro immigration organization shouldn't be worried about validity of H1B positions nor they should be opposing any increase.

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Couple of points in strategy of ** to be noted for their lobbying against H1b increase
1. If H1b increase without backlog removal is done companies may not push hard for backlog removal though they support if backlog removal is done separately.
2. H1b increase is facing more opposition than backlog removal among Americans. So it makes sense to insist on backlog removal and neutral on H1b increase.

Ramsen - my friend - this is my last response to you on this topic. You just keep moving your argument from one thing to another.

Now you are talking about motives behind resistance to H1B increase.

Lets first deal with #2 - that contradicts with the reality. The said organization resisted and crowed about their resistance and "victory" on resisting H1B increase.

On #1 - with or without the H1B increase the employers have a vested interest in not having backlogs removed at all !! This way they keep their slave workforce forever.

This is the reason I said that the whole strategy of resisting H1B was ill thought out.

And worse - when we see chest thumping then we know there is more theater there than substance.

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Originally Posted by Ramsen

Couple of points in strategy of ** to be noted for their lobbying against H1b increase
1. If H1b increase without backlog removal is done companies may not push hard for backlog removal though they support if backlog removal is done separately.
2. H1b increase is facing more opposition than backlog removal among Americans. So it makes sense to insist on backlog removal and neutral on H1b increase.

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