High-skill green cards get lame-duck push in Congress

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14. They may not want to work for minimum wage, but they do.

There are plenty of folks with even advance degrees who just have to take whatever job there is - it's a miracle if there even is one available in their field, no matter what it pays. This is why I don't buy the argument of it being about immigrants driving down wages - that's just something that's said to try to spread racism and/or xenophobia, and it works shockingly well amongst the left.

I also think having a socialist or communist economy would be better than what we have now, but that's not what we have. What we have is a system where employers work out what they need and try to pay as little as possible for it (you can't both blame employers for this while also praising "success" in business in general). I'm all for those employers being able to hire the absolutely best people in the world for those jobs. If greater competition for the job drives down the wage, is that really any different than greater competition in a market driving down prices? Of course it's not, but too many Americans think the national motto is something like "beggars must always be choosers."