Immigration is about talent, not costs
Look HNers, let's be honest with each other.There's a lot of H1B's on here. You have friends overseas who you want to see succeed in the Bay Area.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.It absolutely, positively hurts local labor - naturalized citizens - etc. Without a doubt.This is not a Xenophobic reaction, it's simply reality.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.It happens all-the-fucking-time.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)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.