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If people's true objection to H-1B workers is that they allow employers to get away with shitty employment practices and bad working conditions then the correct way to fix that is to lobby for the government to end at will employment and introduce unfair dismissal/working standards directive regulations etc. like we have here in Europe. That will go a much longer way and be more legally secure long term for ensuring better rights for American workers.
In reality the true reasons why people don't want H-1B are those that (still) can't be talked about in polite society and so we all get put through this charade instead.
I'm not entirely opposed to the things you advocate for, but for me this is more of an object-level issue. I really don't want to have to have to compete against a billion Indians, especially when the field has relatively high unemployment at the moment.
Sure, that's a valid way to feel, but do you equally accept the arguments of liberal elites who want to exclude US citizen conservatives from being able to compete for elite jobs for the same reason, especially when elite overproduction means their children now have to work harder than they themselves had to for these sorts of positions?
No, because citizenship actually means something. Which means that, in spite of the countless issues I have with our black underclass, I prioritize them over illegal Mexicans competing for their same jobs.
Citizenship means nothing to me. I just want to have less economic competition, whether it's from other US citizens or from foreigners.
You really ought to try to have some feeling of fellowship with your fellow citizens. At a minimum, pretending that citizenship means nothing is a big part of what allowed the woke madness (especially in regards to immigration) to take hold in the first place. But this (surprisingly coherent) video from Sam Hyde might help convince you for other reasons: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YvcUQI6gAaI?si=yIqiiZSn1C4nAos9
I don't see any reason to have a feeling of fellowship with my fellow citizens, specifically, as opposed to having a feeling of fellowship with groups defined in other ways. But I do see that in certain situations, it is best for society in general to at least pretend to have a feeling of citizenship.
So I think you do have a point about the woke madness.
For me one of the interesting things about immigration is that, I think that for the most part, neither wokes nor right-wingers have any real principles about it.
If most people illegally crossing the US border were white conservative Christians, the wokes would be demanding to build a border wall and the right-wingers would be setting up sanctuary cities.
Indeed, you periodically have US-style conservative Christians who happen to be originally from Germanic Europe illegally immigrate to the US and the political valences are opposite.
Reminds me of reactions to Trump giving white South Africans refugee status.
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