Last week, when word spread of a compromise between the White House and the group of Senators, the bill appeared to shift U.S. immigration tradition, in which family ties mattered significantly, to a heightened employer-based system focused on the new point system. However, tech employers say the point system takes control away from businesses because employers would no longer sponsor green-card applications for specific individuals they want to hire.
They won't say the real reason they don't like it ... which is that the self-sponsorship would reduce their ability to lock down their employees.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199701487
Yep, the points system would empower employees....and would reduce so much hassle/misery for them....
The current system gives the control for green card to the employers ....when the real beneficiary is the employee!
Let's get the pimp (employer) out of the way!
The rule is good as long as they don't apply the rule retroactively
as an employee, one may prefer point system right now; but when they start their own business, may be not so much.
It would kill the incentives who want to offer jobs only to employees they can exploit. Things would go back to the original intent of employment-based immigration, which is to fill jobs when Americans aren't available.Would not this kill the incentive for employers to offer jobs? In fact in may turn out to be a good thing in the longer run!
So what. The same thing can be said for almost any other regulation that protects employees, like anti-discrimination rules, workplace safety, paying for overtime, etc.as an employee, one may prefer point system right now; but when they start their own business, may be not so much.