Is h1b good for America?

Could you be slightly less vague?

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What does H-1B visa mean?
The H-1B is a temporary (nonimmigrant) visa category that allows employers to petition for highly educated foreign professionals to work in “specialty occupations” that require at least a bachelor's degree or the equivalent.

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Is a visa like a Louisiana purchase card?

H1B is bad for America. It allows you to bring in foreigners to work for less than Americans normally would. Tech companies claim they need it but it is just so they can pay less.

It’s a very complicated issue with no correct answer

It is not good when they replace entire IT departments with H1B visa holders like Disney.

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Lots of Abhays and Ranjiits getting paid 40k for 90k jobs out there.

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this is what libertarians want

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Yeah government always lies. If you’re pregnant, smoke all the cigs you want and get drunk every night. The kid will be fine.

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Anyone with a lick of common sense knows cigarettes and alcohol aren't good for a fetus.

People with common sense doesn't need Daddy Government to tell them that.

Let me guess, you are over 70 and vote Democrat.

H1B can be good to attract and retain people with specific skills that are hard to find. Think of emerging technologies where there aren't many experts yet, or programs out there to widely teach a skill.

As other mentioned, they are often used to hire workers at a lower wage than an American would accept for the same position.

The H1B recipient is also stuck in a difficult situation. If they leave their current position for a better paying job, that company has to be willing to take on the HR and legal burden of transferring their H1B. The job also has to be a similar job that is considered in short supply. The H1B recipient can also lose their spot in line for a green card. I have had several Indian coworkers that stayed in position far too long because of this.

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As other mentioned, they are often used to hire workers at a lower wage than an American would accept for the same position.

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What's funny about this strategy is that it more often than not bites them in the arse. Body shops like Tata Consulting or Wipro believe in quantity over quality. Their pitch is if you need 30 guys in a helpdesk, you'll get 30 guys. The level of expertise and knowledge on the other hand...hey that doesn't matter because you're paying pennies on the dollar.

I don't think it is. I'd even go so far as to say we need something like the Jones Act for some of the main fields that use H-1B workers.

My reasons are, first, that many of the software jobs that H-1B holders work in are among the last jobs where an American can earn a middle-class income without a professional degree. Do we want to further eviscerate our middle class?

Second, I just don't think the H-1B workers are all that good. There are cultural and language barriers. There is the fact that a US degree is just better than a third world degree. There are also more subtle issues around motivation. The motivation becomes to drag out work interminably so this person can stay in the country. Changing jobs is not as easy for these people, so they bring a different (and destructive) attitude to their work.

Finally, I would point out that the people asking for more H-1Bs are the ideological allies of the people who say that we need Mexicans to come in and do whatever they do and the ideological heirs to the people who wouldn't let us pick our own cotton. Ask yourself whether those people are or were benevolent.