The H1-B visa debate: Where do you stand?

I have been reading a lot lately about the perennial debate over H1-B visas and whether the annual cap should be lifted to allow more foreign workers to come here on this visa program.

By design, the H1-B visa is supposed to be used only to hire foreign workers for which U.S. hiring efforts are inadequate. In other words, we can't find enough bodies with the sought-after skills at home, so we must seek them abroad. Not surprisingly, the majority of H1-B visas issued each year are issued to information technology workers.

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