Is it the government's job to prevent legal wage depression? How exactly is H1B wage depression? If there is a legal and ethical way of hiring someone who can do your work for less, why should that be shut out? It's a different matter if you are talking about the minimum wage, which does merit some protection.
Wage-based arguments for H1B are pure protectionism.
There are legitimate problems with H1B, e.g. spouse not being allowed to work and the irrational country quotas for transitioning H1Bs into green cards. 'Wage-depressing' and 'job-stealing' are specious critiques at best. It is debatable whether the government should be in the business of preventing wage depression.
>Is it the government's job to prevent legal wage depression? How exactly is H1B wage depression
The problem is the government intervention in the H1B. That is why immigration without the specific form of government intervention that is found in H1B is something I can support. The problem is that the government enforces company loyalty on penalty of being thrown out of the country or worse.
Let them be hired and move here, but let them be just as free to seek a new employer if they ever feel they are being taken advantage of.
Wage-based arguments for H1B are pure protectionism.
There are legitimate problems with H1B, e.g. spouse not being allowed to work and the irrational country quotas for transitioning H1Bs into green cards. 'Wage-depressing' and 'job-stealing' are specious critiques at best. It is debatable whether the government should be in the business of preventing wage depression.