Reply #75: The article says that, but that the overall effect is good for the economy

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We can't afford to protect particular classifications of workers making the highest possible wages by spending a lot of money keeping their competitors out (or worse, trying to force the employers to stay here somehow when the cheaper labor is out there) at the expense of the overall economy. Then in the end, no one would have a job.

People sort of look at "my job" and think they have a right to narrow the competition; when it comes to immigrants and foreigners, they rage about the incursions on that right. May as well rage against people having babies or the colleges spitting out more graduates in your field. Overall policy has to be good for the economy, not just a hodgepodge that tries to make the job market as good as possible for each occupation.

And people never care about somebody else's occupation, either. Why should one occupation have less opportunity just so another can have more?