[quote=paramount] . . . And I did not say white people – I said white males.

Sorry, but it’s reality.

‘Last Acceptable Form Of Discrimination’ Is Of White Men[/quote]I agree with these statements with some caveats. “white males should be changed to “nativist” males AND females (primarily white, black, Native American and mixtures of all of the above who were born in the US and whose parents were born in the US). “Nativist” could probably also include “Chicanos” who emigrated to the US before 1965 (at least two generations ago and very prevalent in TX, NM and CO). Many families today headed by a “Chicano” who emigrated to the US more than 50 years ago are mostly mixed with other nationalities of “Caucasian.”

The reason so many qualified people in the above groups are unemployed today is due to massive immigration from all over the world into the US since the mid-70’s and also the H1-b program. Were it not for Federal polices allowing all these groups to emigrate to the US en masse and even eventually become US citizens, the unemployment in the “nativist” sectors wouldn’t be double digit like it is in most US locales.

I’m not saying that all of the immigration allowed into the US was bad … I’m just saying that full employment for the “nativist sector” of the US population has dropped significantly in the past 20 years due to massive immigration into the country.

As such, I feel that the US didn’t need to approve most of the H1b workers they did to take coveted jobs because we already had enough qualified people to do these jobs who were born here and educated here. I agree that some medical specialties (physicians, ESP if educated in the US) ARE needed here because there haven’t been enough Americans majoring in these specialties in recent decades and the “good physician stock” in the US is aging rapidly. But that’s the extent of the H1b visas the US should be issuing, IMO. Other countries reserve their best jobs for their own natives and there is nothing wrong with that. It’s as it should be.