But not enough students are choosing to be immigrants because the pay difference isn’t high enough.
Hopefully we will attract enough engineers before that happens but if it does, then we will motivate more business majors and lesbian dance theory majors to major in things like law, medicine, science and engineering.
Because you can’t find any Americans to fill your jobs at any price, remember?
Do you have a shortage that you cannot fill at any price or are you just trying to get cheap foreign labor?
Well, apparently the difference isn’t big enough. 3.4 billion lifetime income for engineers compared to 2.6 billion lifetime income for business majors.
So if we stop importing cheap labor, then wage prices will increase and more kids will go into engineering and we won’t have to import the labor to meet demand.
I may have missed the response to the number of posters in this thread who assert that spouse/dependent visas “take away slots from others”. IIRC that is not the case; such visas are not counted in the quotas. I may be mis-remembering that, though.
We will pass out 480,000 greencards for family reunification other than spouse and minor unmarried children. However we reduce this number by the number af spouse and minor unmarried children that get a greencard through family reunification (but no lower than 226,000). The number has basically been pegged at 226,000 because more than 254,000 minor children and spouses of citizens and greencard holders apply for greencards every year.
What the spoouse and minor children greencard don’t do is take away from the immigration CAP of 675,000 immigrants we allow every year.
We have something like 20 million people who want to get in every year.