Setting aside the fact that I& #39;m more productive and happier at work because of my international colleagues, banning these visas is more likely to hurt the economy than help it, and I& #39;m gonna rant about it in the best way I know how (with data) https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1275185673453080578">https://twitter.com/NPR/statu...

The American people who have filed for unemployment (Retail, Leisure and Hospitality https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t14.htm)">https://www.bls.gov/news.rele... are not in the fields that H-1B visa-holders are in (Tech, Engineering https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trumps-immigration-plan-high-skilled-workers,">https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/... https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/reports-studies/Characteristics-of-Specialty-Occupation-Workers-H-1B-Fiscal-Year-2017.pdf)">https://www.uscis.gov/sites/def...

Whereas Education and Health is the 3rd highest unemployment category, *the positions in this category that H-1B visa holders would "take" are positions where there is a shortage of Americans to fill them* https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/press-releases/new-findings-confirm-predictions-physician-shortage">https://www.aamc.org/news-insi... https://www.epi.org/publication/the-teacher-shortage-is-real-large-and-growing-and-worse-than-we-thought-the-first-report-in-the-perfect-storm-in-the-teacher-labor-market-series/">https://www.epi.org/publicati...

Americans who work in H-1B-type fields have unemployment rates that are so much lower than other fields that it suggests the US has a demand for more workers, not a demand for more jobs, both now ( https://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Analysis-of-Employment-Data-for-Computer-Occupations.NFAP-Policy-Brief.May-2020.pdf)">https://nfap.com/wp-conten... and not during a pandemic ( http://www.newamericaneconomy.org/sites/all/themes/pnae/stem-report.pdf)">https://www.newamericaneconomy.org/sites/all...

Importantly, hiring H1/H2 visa-holders creates more jobs for US natives, by increasing productive output (e.g. producing more patents), allowing them to hire more people, and by increasing the productivity of their US-born peers https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/-immigration-and-american-jobs_144002688962.pdf">https://www.aei.org/wp-conten...

I should add: the contributions of our international colleagues is more than economic and scientific. These are our friends, family, and community members. Here I just aimed to dismantle the supposed justification of this policy. We already know by now: the cruelty is the point.