We should increase the number of job-based visas, broaden eligibility and simplify regulations, including scrapping unworkable labor certification rules. A better way to ensure both foreign and native workers competitive pay is to issue visas that don't restrict the recipient to one employer. We should also scrap antiquated country quotas that discriminate against some Asian workers. Already, U.S. firms, faced with the difficulties of bringing in foreign workers, are exporting much of the work. Either they relocate operations abroad or rely on 'virtual immigration' through the Internet.
Indian programmers is the usual example.
Also, the aging countries of Western Europe face skill mismatches and declining populations. As Germany and Britain launch their own H1-B type programs, the United States will only face more competition for global labor. Yes, let's take the world's tired and poor and huddled masses. They have served us well over the years. They are us.