Should US companies be able to fire/layoff US citizens to hire a cheaper employee through H-1B visa ?

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MrWayne said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

At 4% unemployment, chances are that people with some specific educations are missing. Just look at Germany, where the unemployment rate dropped to about that, too, but where the industry is complaining for years now that there ain't enough people who learned manufacturing crafts like mechanics and electronics, which are thus in very high demand. Probably also one of the reasons why Merkel opened the flood-doors for the refugees in 2013.

However, they shouldn't be able to fire people first on a whim, but that's on US job security regulations.

I highly doubt that the lack of skilled worker in certain jobs played any role in the decisions she made back than, I also doubt that she wanted so many refugees to come.

 

"We don't have enough talent in the X-country" This sentence already tells you everything you have to know. Most of the time it is used when your own citizens don't wanna work in certain business because of bad working conditions and low wages.

I's actually the higher paid middle class jobs that require higher education that are missing. The low paid jobs are being taken care of just fine by low skilled immigrants. The problem is that most unemployed just do not have the skill and/or will to get the required education to do those jobs. The more we advance the more advanced jobs we need to perform, but it's not like average intelligence of humans has increased in the past 20 years, but the job requirements sure have.