Baseball, Technology and Immigrants
In this arcticle the author Marc Gunther, a fortune senior writer, talks about the topic of immigrants taking skilled jobs away from Americans. As of now employers are required to attain H-1B visas. H-1B visas allow the employer to higher a foreign worker just as if they were an American citizen. All the foreign worker has to do is get his or her green card and they are good to work. Bill Gates from microsoft is arguing that Americans wouldn't have much of the technology today if it wasn't for foreign workers coming to the United States for work. For example, we wouldn't have such technology as Intel, Yahoo, Ebay, and even Google if it wasn't for these international brains that made them. Bill Gates is now trying to expand the number of H-1B visas allowed per year for foreign workers. He believes that if the act goes through then it will only greaten America's economy. The only problem, as I stated earlier, is that people believe these foreign workers are taking Americans out of the job market. Also if the plan passes then the government will need to find a way to control the job market so that Americans will still have equal oppurtunities compared to foreigners.
I believe that this article proves a great point about American technology. All of our high-tech gadgets aren't just made by American born workers. If Bill Gates can get his H1-B plan passed through congress then mabye it will only help our country in the future. Letting more foreigners to have high skilled jobs in our country has already proven to be a good idea from the past. Economically I believe it would expand technology enough and still make it possible for Americans to have their fair oppurtunity for jobs. My opion would be that more high skilled foreign workers in America would be better than having less. What kinds of problems do you think more H-1B visas would pose to the American economy? If not, what is your insight on how the plan will help America?
4 comments:
I agree that if it was not for foriegners that a lot of our technology today would not have been available to us. There are also many other jobs in this country that most americans refuse to do that man immigrants or sometimes illegal alliens do and do it well.
I also agree that if not for foreign workers there would not be as much technology availble to us in America...At the same time it is cheaper to hire workers in India than in the U.S. which does take jobs away from the American market...This makes it a very give and take relationship.
I think it is a good idea for our country to adopt this idea. If foreigners keep creating technologies that are used all over our country, then they have every right to come here for jobs. Their technologies may also be the source to new opportunities for American workers.
There is a big difference between low skilled workers and high skilled workers. Most of the situations where American's feel threatened by job opportunities are being taken up by foreigners is when they are illegal immigrants a low skill level. If it were just the foreigners who have work visa's or other legal ways of being in the united states it would be great. However, if you took all the illegals out of the United States you would be able to extend the visa's allowed because we would be able to take in more people. As it is right now we take in large amounts of new people into the U.S. and eventually where going to have even more of poverty and population problem then we already have.
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