Immigration is about talent, not costs
Look HNers, let's be honest with each other.<p>There's a lot of H1B's on here. You have friends overseas who you want to see succeed in the Bay Area.<p>In my experience at many tech companies in the Bay Area, H1B Visas exist for one reason, and one reason only - to get skilled engineering/STEM labor -- and to exploit connections (primarily Indian/Pakistani) among these workers to continue to get cheap labor.<p>It absolutely, positively hurts local labor - naturalized citizens - etc. Without a doubt.<p>This is not a Xenophobic reaction, it's simply reality.<p>I've worked at multiple companies (managed their websites) -- where we would temporarily post a job description to appear that it was a fair playing field for local workers -- when in reality that position was definitely, absolutely going to be filled by a cheaper, exploitable H1B visa position.<p>It happens all-the-fucking-time.<p>There's standard, normalized ways immigrants have come to the US for a long time now. There's absolutely no talent shortage in the Bay Area, provided you can pay (and your ideas are interesting)<p>We also don't need any more of the divisive ethic-neuveau-ghettos we're seeing in the south bay, cupertino and east bay with communities insulating themselves rather than assimilating.