On the skilled side of immigration under the Senate Bill?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070607-senators-companies-with-mass-layoffs-shouldnt-hire-more-foreign-workers.html
“”According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over the next decade, 2 million jobs will be created in mathematics, engineering, computer science, and physical science. That equates to about 200,000 jobs a year times 10 equals 2 million jobs,” said Sanders on the Senate floor in May. “Under this legislation, the number of H-1B visas would increase to as many as 180,000 a year. That means virtually every job, about 90 percent that will be created in the high-tech sector over the next 10 years, could conceivably be taken by a H-1B visa holder.”
There is an amendment planned so that at least those companies with mass layoffs (50% of their workers) would have to cut foreign workers too, but does that go far enough?
I do believe in SOME relaxing of H1B (to 100,000 as a set cap) but this bill goes too far, to me. What do you think?