They are owed common decency. They are owed a responsive government that gives them the ability to plan their lives.
The whole idea of giving employers control over their employees’ ability to stay in a country is perverse.
> We should not reward this bad behavior, so just let everything work itself out over time, without rewarding the bad players.
We should fix the system so “bad players” cannot exploit it.
There isn't a single Indian H1B holder that doesn't know they need to be here 15+ years to get their GC and if they get laid off, they need to find a job quickly. And yet, they still gamble on it. Very often they win and get their GC. Sometimes they lose and they have to go back to India. It sucks, but they signed up for it. The US doesn't owe them any sort of guarantee besides the flexibility and generosity that they already give them.
This policy favors no one other than employers who want lower wages. If the US government was not so short sighted, it would be soaking up as much educated and productive labor as it could in the face of declining fertility rates.
The point is that economic migrants often know they will be mistreated in the destination country, but that doesn't make it morally correct to mistreat them.
Are you suggesting they should be given permanent residency just for getting a job? I'm sure you'll find that no country in the world does that.
It has nothing to do with race. You keep saying it's racist when it's not. The system is very fair, and especially fair toward people from India. You can't claim it's racist, you have no evidence, all the evidence points to it's very fair for Indians.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_not_racist,_I_have_black...
This is not accurate, and the crux of my post. They need to leave when they no longer are able to find an employer willing to sponsor them for an H1-B and do all the paperwork.
It would be much less of a problem if what you wrote was true, that the work visa meant they could stay as long as they were working.