&gt;artificial barriers<p>Like citizenship? Do you consider citizenship an artificial barrier?<p>As someone who has worked at tech companies and various law firms in the Silicon Valley, I&#x27;ve seen this story played out several times. Hire Cognizant, TCS, Infosys, Symphony, or some other outsourcing firm and then bring in H-1Bs for an entire department. All it does is drive down wages for everyone and hurt everyone except for the 1% at the top.<p>How do you feel about companies and law firms gaming job postings to disqualify qualified workers in the US so they can hire someone on a visa for much less? Employers are posting jobs that don’t really exist, seeking candidates they don’t want, and paying for bogus non-ads to show there’s an IT labor shortage in America. Here is the law firm Cohen &amp; Grigsby advising other employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU</a> Do you consider this abuse or fraudulent?<p>&gt;Or is this a guise for xenophobia?<p>Implying that the only people against immigration are racists is just a lazy, offensive, and dismissive argument. Try something else.