Reply #11: Where do you see it is (or should be?)?

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Given the nature of the sloppy reporting of the NYTimes, I think you read too much on that. In addition, parents who come here on the H1B know the rules: these are temporary visas. You come for a contract. It is possible it is not renewed and there is no guaranty that you will get a green card. And it is everywhere this way. Nobody is talking about firing and deporting people here. But why would not keeping somebody who is at an end of a contract a problem. It works the same way with American workers. I am a little lost on this reasoning.

And I do not see Kevin Drum talking about hiring practices. I may have missed that, of course, but there is currently very little reasons to hire new H1Bs in this country given the number of people who are unemployed. There may be a few jobs who are difficult to fill, but it is a minority.

Same things for the unions? Where do you see any change linked to the bailout? I may miss it, but I see some people on the right make a lot of noise, but nothing really happening. (I support EFCA, but there is no reason to link it to the bailout, I agree).