Indecent Proposal

Apparently there are a lot of Americans losing their jobs. Unemployment, in case you have been in a cave, has risen to 7.2%, the highest in quite a while.

Here's my incredibly offensive, probably racist, isolationist way to help: Cancel visas.
Before 2001, the U.S. granted approximately 65,000 H1-B visas a year, plus up to 20,000 for foreign applicants with a Master's degree or higher, plus a "no-ceiling" number of foreign applicants who will work at universities or non-profit research centers.
In 2001, Bush raised the cap to 195,000 regular H1-B's for that year and the two years following. By some estimates, 115,000-130,000 visas have been awarded every year since. Include the visas for foreign workers at universities and research centers, and you are talking about 200,000 visas a year. If we cancelled all these visas, there might be a sudden worker shortage in many lucrative, high-paying industries! Oh no!
Universities might be forced to hire new professors that are naturalized citizens! Oh no!
In fact, given the definition of applicants are anyone who is wishing to acquire a "specialized job in architecture, engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, social sciences, medicine and health, education, law, accounting, business specialities, theology, and the arts" we can quickly see that there'd be lots of job openings if we cancelled all H1-B visas!

Now don't get me wrong, I have no problem with foreigners working in America, its just that my allegiances are strongly towards the naturalized citizens of this country regardless of nationality, and when several hundred thousand naturalized citizens can't find jobs but we are awarding 200,000 work visas a year to foreigners, I see a problem. And a solution.


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