It's like a layer of obfuscation around immigration has been torn off in the public debate across the world. You can really see it in Canada which used to really love lots of fluffy happy language around it.

I think there are defensible positions against H1-Bs. It's not slavery, people are free to not apply for them, but it does raise questions for the average person as to how all this works. I.e., why do we have these programs in the most powerful nation on earth with the best schools that should just be able to make more, say, software engineers the way India can?

I think the reality is the knobs that control the number of software engineers being produced in India vs. the number in America and the number that come here is a decision made by just a few people and is largely obfuscated to the public. It seems like some complicated game between global powers..."fine, you make more software engineers, we'll let some come here so you can buy more of our stuff...don't descend into war because that will cost me as well, I also don't want any crazy terrorist acts...I'm going to keep putting my investments into natural gas fracking and ensuring my companies have a foot print in your country..."