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The H1B study sounds suspicious and the defence of the H1B program weakened an otherwise strong article.

H1B abuses have been long documented so while there are legitimate benefits to it, they are outweighed by the problems.

Your assertion that the problems of H1B visas outweigh the benefits is pure conjecture and, for the most part, not supported by facts.

It's all much ado about nothing anyways. 85,000 new H1 visas a year for a population of 330 million? Give me a break. Even if these all went to Wipro it wouldn't even be worth thinking twice about. And the refugee intake is only 49,000 a year. An absolute disgrace.

I am genuinely curious to find out which number or percentage you'd consider a reasonable number or immigrants to admit each year, and how you arrived at that number. Are there any published studies that have tried to calculate this?

You just made a claim too without any results let alone sources for those results.

So? I said the abuses have been long documented - and a quick Google search will bring up said documentation.

I see no need to present sources and results - I'm not claiming anything as fact, just stating opinion in a comment.

Except you criticize the article for doing the same.

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