How Immigration Uncertainty Threatens America’s Tech Dominance
The general direction of the Trump plan regarding H-1b is the way to go.  The lottery needs to be replaced with a demand system where the highest salaries get slots.  A floor of $100,000&#x2F;yr should exist and adjust for inflation. Next, generously expand the green card fast track, as this category of employee, as an immigrant, is a free agent to move among companies or to start their own business.<p>To date, as we all know, the H-1b system has primarily been used to arbitrage for lower wage by Indian companies and mostly non-tech big corporates, where they bring in $60k&#x2F;yr &quot;systems analysts&quot; who are in fact doing $100,000+&#x2F;yr software engineering roles.