I def understand resentment towards the H1B program. OTOH, it's no excuse for fucking over long term visa holders just because you can.
"So, uhh you've been here 8 years? Followed all the rules? Homeowner? Striving for permanent residence? Americanized daughter? Fuck You anyway. You're getting deported!"
Given that there's a numerical limit to such visas that will be filled, it just means that somebody new gets a visa. After somebody else gets fucked, of course. The fuckitty-fuck-fuck-fuck is what the Trump immigration plan is all about. Fuck 'em all, even Citizens who have a south Texas midwife birth certificate. Old Vietnamese refugees who've been here 40 years. Salvadoran refugees who've been here nearly 2 decades. Dreamers. Fuck their American families & dependents. Don't even mention the illegals & the migrants they'd rather turn into dog food.
I totally understand. And myself (like MANY conservatives here and all over the US) are for LEGAL immigration. We are for LEGAL immigration of bringing talented folks here FULLTIME.
We are NOT in favor of a work visa that often times does not lead to citizenship that is often used to displace AMERICAN WORKERS with HIGHER PAY, that eventually lead to OUTSOURCING of the entire department. I'm serious when I say listen to that PBS documentary - while they may bring people in on an H-1B visa, they then train their consulting practice back at home in India. That doesn't sound like a win.
It sounds like reduced pay in the US - which means less tax revenue - AND converting an entire department to offshore.
Again, I work for a similar consulting firm. We have a Hyderabad office full of folks whose sole job is to do American work remotely for pennies on the dollar. You can bring them here and do a round of applause for paying taxes, etc... for a temporary amount of months but what about when they convert an entire department to an India department a year later?
Don't cherry pick long-term H-1B holders though, we know what the problem is as an overall whole. If someone is a long-term H-1B holder I am also in full favor of legalizing them as a citizen - and even moreso - legally ensuring that they are not bound by their employers through endentured servitude.