&gt;Do you consider citizenship an artificial barrier?<p>Actual barrier to a job: knowing how to deliver that type of service.<p>Artificial barrier: Something arbitrary synthesized by a party not involved in an A&lt;-&gt;B transaction.  Such as, having your papers in order so someone doesn&#x27;t throw you in jail.<p>&gt;All it does is drive down wages for everyone and hurt everyone except for the 1% at the top.
Specious argument. What about the person from New York&#x2F;India moving to California?<p>Does allowing a company from California hire someone from New York &#x27;drive down wages hurt everyone except the top 1%&quot;?  If not why does it suddenly &#x27;drive down wages hurt everyone except the top 1%&quot; when you change New York to India?  This is my motivation of suspicion that H1 visas are a guise of xenophobia.<p>To me, H1 visas appear to be a sophomoric tantrum of the US transitioning to a global economy.<p>Addendum for your reflection:
Doesn&#x27;t buying foreign manufactured goods &#x27;drive down wages&#x27;?
Do you not buy foreign mfg goods?
Why not force all companies selling goods in the US to have those products exclusively made in the USA?