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Originally posted by Munchkin03
What is there to be mad about?
Companies are attracted to international workers for a few reasons: <snip>
So, given those factors, I'm surprised the work visa rate isn't higher. The unemployment rate, to be sure, is rotten, but the fact that there are people willing to do the work that some of us don't want to do isn't rotten at all.
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It's true that international workers are often more willing to take "undesirable" jobs and to work for less pay. If the international worker can do as good a job as the US worker but at considerably less pay, it makes good business sense to hire the international worker.
That still doesn't make it any easier to be a US worker sitting around on unemployment while all these people are shipped in from overseas to do what used to be your job. Even taking a less-desirable job or a job for low pay can be better than being unemployed, especially if you've exhausted your unemployment benefits and still have to pay the rent, eat, etc. - but the US workers often don't even get the chance to apply for these jobs.
The concept of "Buy American" just hasn't filtered into the job market.
