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Both blue collar and white collar wages are being dramatically depressed via legal and illegal immigration. I have no idea why this became a right-wing talking point. This is why big business is very pro immigration.

Your employer can at any time replace you with an H1b who MUST work at the company to even stay in the country.

As soon as we can reform immigration we are going to see much higher software salaries.

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The immigration issue has been a crown lying in the gutter waiting for someone to pick it up ever since the 90s when the Clinton "It's the economy, stupid" Democrats teamed up with the Bush neocon Republicans to make corporate profits and Wall Street numbers their driving basis for economic policy. All the approved economists said making goods cheaper would make everyone richer, no matter how it happened, so they yelled "Smoot-Hawley hur hur" at everyone who disagreed, and invited the world.

It's unnecessarily politicized and also the source of all of these fake job postings.

Employers put them up and everybody wastes their time applying. When the employer "can't find anyone qualified" they import an h1b for less money who can be worked harder because they have no choice.

They love that they can hire and train people who can't complain or even legally leave to join a competitor. Pound sand, Americans!

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