<story><title>Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers with Immigrants</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/lawsuit-claims-disney-colluded-to-replace-us-workers-with-immigrants.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diogenescynic</author><text>In my opinion, the real fix is to make the H-1B &amp;#x27;lottery&amp;#x27; into an auction. Instead of accepting 65,000 H-1Bs at random--accept the 65,000 H-1Bs with the highest wages. That way we are getting the immigrants with the highest valued skills and stopping companies like Cognizant and Infosys that game the immigration system by applying for the cheapest H-1Bs possible.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>The real fix to this is to make sure that people brought over with an H1-B can &lt;i&gt;easily&lt;/i&gt; change jobs.  That way they&amp;#x27;re not beholden to some low-wage job, and companies that bring people in merely for low wages will face high rates of churn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>What is special about the number 65,000?&lt;p&gt;Absolutely nothing.  It&amp;#x27;s central planning for something that doesn&amp;#x27;t require it: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;johnhcochrane.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;the-optimal-number-of-immigrants.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;johnhcochrane.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;the-optimal-number...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers with Immigrants</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/lawsuit-claims-disney-colluded-to-replace-us-workers-with-immigrants.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diogenescynic</author><text>In my opinion, the real fix is to make the H-1B &amp;#x27;lottery&amp;#x27; into an auction. Instead of accepting 65,000 H-1Bs at random--accept the 65,000 H-1Bs with the highest wages. That way we are getting the immigrants with the highest valued skills and stopping companies like Cognizant and Infosys that game the immigration system by applying for the cheapest H-1Bs possible.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>The real fix to this is to make sure that people brought over with an H1-B can &lt;i&gt;easily&lt;/i&gt; change jobs.  That way they&amp;#x27;re not beholden to some low-wage job, and companies that bring people in merely for low wages will face high rates of churn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>calvinbhai</author><text>Its super easy to game even your suggestion. Pay $100K, get $40k back in cash. your suggestion may end up making it worse for legit H1b employers, especially startups, that&amp;#x27;ll get suffocated with such high costs.&lt;p&gt;Ability to switch jobs at will, can bring up the paid salary and it puts the onus on employer to ensure employee is treat equal to other other employees in US. If employee is not treated&amp;#x2F;paid well enough, employee can move to another company in US.</text></comment>