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an oversupply of H1B immigrants cutting wages to entry level rates
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This statement has been sticking with me for a few days. Perhaps this happens in other fields, but in my field, I don't know of any of my coworkers from abroad (and it's about fifty-fifty here) who are driving *down* the wages... If they're here, the internationals want to be paid the same as the domestics, and if they're the best candidates for the job and they've gone through legal avenues to come here, then I really don't really see any reason why they shouldn't have the job, aside from yay-America reasons. Honestly, I'd kind of miss the diversity that I get around here if we hired just Americans and didn't go for just the best candidates we could get, regardless of national origin.
That second half of that statement is more politics than engineering, though. The first half is the important part... I don't see any of my foreign citizen coworkers driving down my salary.