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On Sat, May 7, 2016, at 11:16, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > Indian and Chinese H1B holders are getting screwed, which is of course
> > the whole objective of the country limits.
> 
> The *whole* objective? You don't think that *part* of the objective may
> be
> to ensure that citizens of countries other than India and China can get
> green cards too?

If not for the quotas, a citizen of some other country would have an
equal chance to get a green card as a citizen of India or China. This is
a much simpler question than Python convention attendees, since there
are *in fact* more Indian or Chinese people in actual existence than
citizens of any given other country, which can't be blamed on any form
of discrimination.

> Perhaps the country limits are also in place, at least in part, to manage
> the rate at which new immigrants arrive in the country?

That's immaterial, we're not talking about a limit on the total number
of visas.