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Tech bros: “There’s a shortage of talent. We need more workers! More H-1Bs!”
Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley: “My perfect GPA students are contacting me worried because they are getting zero job offers.”
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This screenshot has been making the rounds on Twitter.
No one wants to have an honest conversation about the implications of the H-1B visa program.
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🚨 Big News:
A jury has found Indian IT outsourcing firm ‘Cognizant’ guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees.
“The lawsuit claimed Cognizant ousted many non-Indian workers by first taking them off projects and “benching” them without work… until firing them…”
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Sorry to cut the celebrations short. After reviewing the details of the proclamation:
• The proclamation DOES NOT apply to individuals already in the U.S. on H-1B status, or to student visa holders on OPT seeking to change their status to H-1B.
• It applies only to individuals outside the United States who are being sponsored for H-1B visas and seeking entry. This is specifically aimed at the Indian IT outsourcing companies whose business model is to sponsor large numbers of foreign workers abroad and bring them into the U.S. on H-1B visas. They may shift to sourcing workers who arrived on student visas or to heavily utilizing L-1 visas.
• H-1B workers could also be affected if they ever travel abroad and require visa stamping in order to return to the United States, even if they are otherwise in valid status.
The proclamation isn’t terrible, but it falls short of truly helping American workers and STEM graduates. Companies like Google and Microsoft won’t be affected, because they source their foreign workers through L-1 visas or from those who arrived on student visas. So when @howardlutnick said tech companies support it, now we know why.
If the Trump administration truly wants to help American tech workers and STEM graduates, it needs to end the OPT program, which was created entirely through regulation. Otherwise, it isn’t serious about fixing this issue.
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You can’t complain about "labor shortages" when Intel just laid off 15,000 employees. Semiconductor engineers are plentiful—we just keep screwing them over, causing them to lose faith in job security within the industry. Then you wonder why fertility rates are low.
No, we need more like double that number yesterday!
The number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low.
Think of this like a pro sports team: if you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be. That enables the whole TEAM to win.
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This person is paid $1.27 million a year to help resettle 20,000 Haitians into the small working class town of Springfield, Ohio.
The destruction of Springfield, Ohio inspired me to look at which organizations are being paid the most for refugee resettlement in the state.
A 501c3 called National Youth Advocate Project has been awarded $292 million by the Dept of Health and Human Services for assistance to unaccompanied illegal alien children in Ohio since 2021.
The organization's 2022 IRS form 990 says that the CEO, Marvena Twigg (social worker), earned $1.27 million that year. Wowie.
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Last week, we showed how the engineering degree — once a solid path to the middle class — is failing new American grads.
This week, we looked at Computer Science.
If you thought engineering grads were struggling, computer science grads are faring even worse.
🧵 THREAD
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You thought the H-1B visa was bad?
Wait until you hear about the two other sinister visa programs that are even more harmful than the H-1B. We’ll discuss them later.
Any guesses? Drop them in the replies.
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The H-1B program was never wanted or needed. It was created in 1990 based on a faulty NSF study that was never made public and falsely predicted a shortage of engineers. Scientists who testified before Congress tore it apart, and even the NSF admitted it was flawed. Yet heavy business lobbying pushed it through anyway.
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There are roughly 270K Chinese students in the US, the second largest sending country. Moreover, over half of postdocs working at universities, doing research, are foreigners here on temporary non-immigrant visas.
The reason for so many is two-fold. First, the CCP runs a massive overt and covert tech transfer program against the US. Second, foreign students are eager to participate in jobs programs such as Curricular Practical Training (CPT) while in school and Optional Practical Training (OPT) after they graduate. For those that qualify for STEM OPT, they get a 3-year employment authorization document that permits them to work anywhere in the US.
If @realDonaldTrump wanted to flip the trade tables on China, he would direct @DHSgov to terminate the STEM OPT program as well as greatly curtail CPT. He has the authority to do both with no need for legislation,
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H-1B and L-1 visas have hollowed out opportunities for 🇺🇸 workers, leaving generations of families sidelined and dreams deferred. Here’s what @Troup1998 and his family endured after he was asked to train his foreign replacements on these visas before being let go from Siemens:
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Senate Republicans are watering down the remittance tax from 3.5% to just 1%. House GOP BBB passed 5%, but the Senate caves — again! So, H-1Bs replace American workers, then get rewarded for wiring U.S. wages to countries profiting off our offshored jobs.
Absolute betrayal!
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They don’t realize what they’ve just admitted here:
Trump’s deportations could cost California ‘hundreds of billions of dollars.’ Here’s how calmatters.org/economy/2024/…
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This tweet perfectly illustrates how appeals to social justice are often used to mask policies that advance corporate power and labor exploitation.
Private equity consolidation in the ski industry has caused consumer costs to skyrocket, eroded local resort cultures, and replaced local staff with low-wage seasonal labor hired through the J-1 visa program, a nonimmigrant “cultural exchange” program that in practice functions as a cheap labor pipeline with minimal wage enforcement and exemptions from FICA taxes.
To conceal this crony capitalist rot, @repPettersen instead frames the issue as an attack on 'immigrants' — which J-1 visa holders are not, and has chosen to side with the private equity firms.
Trump’s attacks on legal immigration are hurting Colorado’s economy. 60% of ski resorts rely on workers with J-1 visas, and many are now scrambling as they are unable to fill the positions needed.
When we shut immigrants out, we hurt our local businesses, our tourism industry, and our economy.
bit.ly/3LqK1eU
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Qualified Americans, please apply for the job and then immediately file a case with the DOJ-IER for violating the Immigration and Nationality Act’s citizenship-status discrimination provision. You could win a nice easy settlement.
File a case here: justice.gov/crt/filing-charg…
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They’ve already filled this role with an H-1B worker. Now they want to get them a green card. By law, they’re supposed to prove that no qualified Americans can fill this job — so they game the system: ads buried in newspapers, resumes only accepted by snail mail.
Abbot Labs is ONCE AGAIN asking all its applicants for jobs in California to PAPER MAIL their resumes to their HR in Chicago
Does that seem like a legitimate recruiting process to you?
up to 293k for this sr. product manager role
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Big Tech: “We can’t find qualified Americans to fill these positions.”
Also Big Tech: “We need to place these PERM job ads where no Americans will see them.”
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“With less international students on campus, landlords are left with vacant units. And that means lower rents.”
“How do landlords feel about it?”
“I mean landlords are not happy about it.”
Darth Powell
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Trump’s Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins urged him to have ICE ease up on farm raids and he complied. Then GOP donors from the hospitality industry asked for the same, and got it. What’s next, Tim Cook asking for an H-1B pass? Not a good look for an “America First” agenda.
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2016 Trump: “I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first.”
2024 Trump: “I promise to staple a Green Card to anyone who graduates from ANY college, even 2-yr community colleges.”
This isn’t America First.
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Really Congressman! Between 1978 - 2000, not a single new medical school was added. The only one added since 2000, was Florida State University. This was a direct result of legislation signed by Governor Ron DeSantis.
In 1997, Congress froze the number of medical residencies it would fund and only in a 2021 appropriations act, opted to fund 1,000 more residencies that would be filled over the course of a few years.
In short, despite an ample and motivated supply of native talent to meet the demand for doctors and other skilled practitioners, Congress has opted to do NOTHING!
And why is it instead of investing in our own people, these clowns in Congress always opt for more immigration? Moreover, they never seem to ask, what is the impact on the sending country, when their doctors split to the USA.
The AAMC projects a shortage of physicians in the USA between 37,800 and 124,00 after 2034. We need to get serious about addressing that shortfall. And the only way is by creating and not importing more physicians. Because quality of healthcare matters as well.
Only Americans can make America healthy again!
H1-B Visas are critical for helping alleviate the severe physician shortage this nation faces. We cannot train enough American Doctors fast enough. We can’t let lack of knowledge of the importance of this program to affect patient care.
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🧵You thought the H-1B visa was bad? Wait until you hear about the largest guest worker program killing jobs for new American college grads—the Optional Practical Training (OPT):
• No caps
• Employers get payroll tax exemptions
• No wage requirements
@NumbersUSA explains:
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Apparently “MAGA” now means letting our top rival send hundreds of thousands of its nationals to prop up diploma mills, granting them work permits (OPT) to compete with young U.S. grads struggling in this difficult job market, while increasing risks of IP theft.
NOW - Trump says 600,000 Chinese students coming to the U.S. is a pro-MAGA stance because "you would have half the colleges in the United States go out of business... I know what MAGA wants better than anybody else."
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“There’s so much H-1B visa abuse. You won’t believe what I saw when I was in Silicon Valley. It’s crazy! It’s insane! It’s obviously a program to try and replace U.S. workers with basically slave labor…”
Absolutely correct @PalmerLuckey!
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Just remember, we gave Intel all the foreign workers it wanted (it consistently ranked among the top 10 employers for H-1B sponsorship).
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A very questionable appointment by @realDonaldTrump. @sriramk’s pet issue is expanding the H-1B visa program and removing country cap quotas for Green Cards.
Not America First at all.
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When Trump suspended guest worker visas during COVID, resorts quickly found American college kids were willing to work once they improved incentives. The idea that young Americans “won’t do these jobs” is a diabolical lie.
At our hotel in Yellowstone, the workers were all imported from Eastern Europe on some kind of summer work visa bc there weren't any 17 year olds wanting to work for $19/hr. They even had bunkhouses for the temp migrant labor force at the hotel!
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IBM is cutting 9,000 tech jobs in the U.S. and offshoring them to India to save on labor costs. There needs to be a serious policy discussion on protecting our technology base to ensure national security, innovation, and economic stability.
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It’s quite clear why Americans are growing disillusioned with foreign-born politicians whose loyalties seem to lie with the foreign constituents of their home country rather than the Americans they were elected to represent. Don’t cry 'racism' when you’re called out.
As an immigrant myself, the H1-B issue is close to my heart.
By increasing H1-B visas and streamlining the H1-B and greencard process, America maintains our edge on innovation & discovery.
Reform of legal, skill-based immigration creates economic growth and more American jobs.
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Attention @SecretaryLCD, is the Department of Labor going to investigate this?
Microsoft, $MSFT, has requested 6,327 H-1B visas, mostly from India, in Washington, per Amanda Goodall.
That same month, it laid off 2,300 workers in the state.
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Thanks to the H-1B visa program, IBM facilitated the offshoring of U.S. jobs to India after laying off its American workforce.
NYT: “IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S.”
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120,000 H-1Bs approved for FY 2026. On top of that, international students get work permits via the illegal OPT program that comes with FICA tax breaks. Media and Big Tech keeps selling a “talent shortage” while 4.0 GPA CS grads can’t get hired. The system is rigged.
>Graduates with a 4.0 in Computer Science
>Starts applying to jobs
>Couldn't even get an interview
>Self-esteem obliterated
>Now works at Walmart
Bro doesn't deserve this :(
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Americans are fed up with this:
Here’s the thing: Indians are rising.
And that is actually why anti-Indian sentiment is rising. Not because Indians are so weak, but because Indians are once again becoming strong.
CEOs of companies.
Leaders of countries.
Founders and investors.
Doctors, writers, professors.
Not just slumdogs.
Millionaires.
Now, I know what people will say.
Not all Indians are doing well.
More than a billion are still poor!
And of course that’s true, and will be for a while.
But Indians abroad have risen as individuals:
And India is now rising as a country:
Indeed, India is the fastest growing large economy in the world over the last decade:
And I think Indians have a lot of headroom left. Where does it end up? We don’t know, but if even 5% of 1.4B Indian nationals are at the same level as the ~5M strong Indian American diaspora that currently produces ~6% of US tax revenue, that’s ~70M people capable of producing ~72% of current US tax revenue.
So I think it’s at least possible that India returns to its historical level of relative prosperity:
As a plausibility argument, recall that before America was even a twinkle in anyone’s eye, Marco Polo sought out China and Columbus risked his life to trade with India. So those civilizations were giant economic centers for thousands of years.
And are becoming so again.
This perspective demands a different approach. Not the victim mindset where Indians mimic Western wokes in whining piteously upon every slight. But a mature, tit-for-tat morality befitting a rising people where you cooperate with those that cooperate, ignore what is best ignored, and (proportionately) punish only when necessary.
Because even from a purely realpolitik standpoint, constant cancellation doesn’t work. Recall that wokes tried that for the last decade, and all it got them was epic political defeat. They overused the penicillin called anti-racism, and now we have antibiotic-resistant actual racism.
Indians will need different tactics. And that starts with moving from victim mentality to Vedic mentality, if you'll permit the poetic license. Because India isn't just a rising civilization, it's a returning civilization. And wokes are proven losers, but Indians can be winners.
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Under INA §212(a)(5)(A), a Green Card can’t be approved for a foreign worker if qualified Americans apply to the ‘PERM’ job ad. Immigration lawyers game this by hiding these ads in obscure newspapers so no one sees them.
JobsNow posts these ads online so Americans can apply, which forces PERM to be paused or be denied.
Now H-1Bs are on forums demanding the site be shut down so they can keep skirting the law.
Wow they really are complaining about Jobs Now on blind!
Turns out competition isn’t so fun when Americans actually get their (legally mandated) chance to apply for your jobs!
You know what to do! We have hundreds of fresh PERM jobs up on our site today!
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The reason top tech companies are hiring foreign workers over Americans is simply because they don’t want to pay higher wages. It’s as simple as that @VivekGRamaswamy.
Here’s the evidence:
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
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Nowhere in the article is there any evidence provided that this software engineer lost his job because of AI. What’s really happening is job displacement through H-1B visas and offshoring to India. Media keeps falsely blaming AI.
Now he’s working for DoorDash, still counted as “employed,” and neoliberals will point to the low unemployment rate as justification for even more immigration.
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What happened during the Christmas H-1B visa kerfuffle should have served as a warning.
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Tesla is being sued for allegedly hiring visa holders over U.S. citizens. The lawsuit claims visa workers are preferred, while Americans are rejected or disproportionately laid off because visa workers are cheaper.
“The lawsuit was brought by software engineer Scott Taub and human resources specialist Sofia Brander, who said Tesla refused to hire them after learning they would not need sponsorship for employment, an indication they were U.S. citizens.
Taub said he was dissuaded from seeking one job after being told it was for "H1B only," and not invited to interview for a second job. Brander said Tesla wouldn't interview her for two jobs though she had twice been a contract employee.”
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Immigration policy should never be part of trade negotiations. Allowing more Chinese foreign students while IP theft remains a serious concern puts our national security and innovation at risk.
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The visa programs more sinister than the H-1B that are uncapped and have no wage requirements:
1. Optional Practical Training (OPT) — work permits handed out to foreign students graduating from U.S. colleges
2. L-1 visa — allows companies to transfer employees from their foreign offices to U.S. offices while maintaining their foreign salary.
You thought the H-1B visa was bad?
Wait until you hear about the two other sinister visa programs that are even more harmful than the H-1B. We’ll discuss them later.
Any guesses? Drop them in the replies.
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More visa fraud from the usual suspects, and the U.S. government continues to turn a blind eye.
To bypass the H-1B visa quota, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) disguised ordinary workers as “executive managers” to qualify for L-1A visas, which have no quotas or minimum wage requirements and provide a fast track to an Einstein Green Card.
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The H-1B visa program is a complete scam.
Trump admin reveals over 100 investigations into H-1B abuses as it pledges 'every resource' to protect US jobs
foxnews.com/politics/trump-a…
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GameStop is doing a better job at distributing wealth to Americans during a pandemic than the US government .
#GME #wallstreetbets
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The H-1B visa program isn’t being “abused”. It’s working just as intended when congress created the visa in the Immigration Act of 1990 — to help companies displace and discriminate American workers.
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“Young people are struggling to land their first jobs and anyone who has been laid off is having a hard time.”
Yet the government continues to issue work permits to international student graduates and allows companies to keep requesting new H-1Bs.
New unemployment claims declined last week (as expected on July 4th holiday week).
The real story is continuing claims, which hit the highest level since November 2021.
It’s difficult to find a new job right now. Young people are struggling to land their first jobs and anyone who has been laid off is having a hard time. The labor market is frozen outside of healthcare, education and law enforcement jobs.
#jobs
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Now ban the H-1B visa program.
#BREAKING: The United States just put a visa ban on Indian travel agents for organizing an illegal migration scheme.
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Deloitte’s salary data got hacked. Researchers got a hold of the hacked data and discovered Deloitte’s H-1B workers were paid 10% less than American workers.
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India relies on H-1B visas to facilitate offshoring U.S. jobs, while allowing a large number of Indians to settle in America. This creates a steady flow of remittances and strengthens political influence that aligns with India's interests. Bad for American workers.
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Imagine if NBA teams replaced all American players with foreign ones to "cut costs"—there’d be an outcry. That’s how American companies operate using visas, like what Boeing and Intel did with its engineers.
This is why @elonmusk is receiving the appropriate pushback because Americans aren’t buying the whole pro-sports team analogy that open borders advocates use to gaslight Americans on immigration. That’s not how these visas are being used.
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Correct. Here are immigration lawyers admitting as much:
“Our goal is clearly NOT to find a qualified U.S. worker…our objective is to get this person a green card…so certainly we are not going to find a place where applicants would be most numerous.”
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There should be ZERO support for the H-1B visa program.
Congress specifically created this program to help employers legally replace American workers with cheaper compliant foreign workers.
Your son will probably end up pursuing a career in finance after he discovers how rigged the STEM job market is due to these visas.
I absolutely support the H-1B visa program and H2B. Legal immigration not only benefits those utilizing the system but our nation as well…
Does it need reform? YES !
My son is studying robotic/ mechanical engineering College and being able to select the best and most talented employees for your business is vital - the talent pool is limited and we need more American children studying math, science and engineering- excelling in these vital fields is essential to our growth as a nation.
Our nation is successful because of legal immigration- do we need REFORM - again, I say YES but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
My mother was a refugee and immigrant from Cuba - she came to the U.S. in the 1960s legally on the Johnson Freedom Flights. She loved this nation on par with all the patriots I’ve known.
First, we need to shut down the border, send a clear message that we are not going to allow ANYONE in illegally and we MUST deport all the criminal illegal Aliens that are in our nations jails and on our streets.
President Elect Trump is right - foreign nation’s must cooperate in accepting their repatriated citizens or they will be financially penalized and cut off from business - maybe the visa program can be contingent on this as well?
We also have to find the missing children - over 350,000 undocumented children still missing in our nation - we MUST because it was the Biden admin that put them in jeopardy by establishing an open border policy against U.S. laws.
The Republican Party shouldn’t be fighting over this issue but finding ways to make these visa programs more secure and utilizing them to the benefit of our nation and our future.
That’s just my two cents … what do you think? 🤔
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Despite ongoing tech layoffs and poor job numbers, the government has opened up the H-1B visa lottery registration today, potentially allowing 120,000 foreign workers to replace American workers. The H-1B is a random lottery that doesn't take skill level or wages into account.
Unacceptable @StephenM!
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“H-1B visa debate in the U.S. puts Indian government on alert”
The Indian government is working with Nasscom, an Indian IT outsourcing lobbying group, to protect the H-1B visa program from any potential impacts.
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Intel fired most of its senior engineers (Americans, of course!) and began replacing them with H-1Bs because they came at a cheaper rate.
Now we have headlines like this about Intel:
Boeing did ‘foreign tech workers’ and got a bunch of people killed in avoidable airline crashes driven by bad software. This was all in the name of ‘shareholder value’ by cutting costs.
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Canada is providing a glimpse of what happens when a country lowers standards to its student visa program.
Conestoga College admitted over 30,000 international students (majority from India) in a single year. Here’s what an employer had to say about the quality of the job applicants coming out of Conestoga College:
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Trump admin is defending an Obama-era policy that grants work authorization to the spouses of H-1B workers from India in the Green Card queue — even though Congress never approved it — and is urging SCOTUS to toss out a case brought by former U.S. tech workers.
🧵 THREAD
At the Supreme Court Friday, DOJ lawyers defended President Barack Obama’s 2015 decision to provide work permits to the spouses of H-1B migrants. The brief argues American professionals should not be allowed to sue the government over the policy because they cannot prove they suffer direct economic harm from additional foreign workers.
“This document gives the impression that the Trump administration is not in control of the Justice Department,” says John Miano of @CIS_org.
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Intel just laid off 15,000 workers. But here’s a think-tank guy citing a bogus paid-for study by McKinsey to argue there’s an engineer “labor shortage” in the U.S. chip sector, so we need to import more foreign workers to fill the “job-workers gap”.
Despicable stuff.
The US chip sector will generate around 160,000 new job openings in engineering and technician support, but only around 1,500 engineers join the industry each year. This job-workers gap needs to get filled; high-skilled immigration reform likely needed. ft.com/content/e4dc9ec2-1fcf…
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Keep these headlines in mind when they tell you "high-skilled" immigration is all about hiring the top 0.1% to make America an innovation superpower.
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“Texas Instruments is facing scrutiny for continuing its reliance on H-1B visa workers while simultaneously laying off employees and benefiting from billions in federal subsidies.”
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None of these companies were founded by immigrants from 🇮🇳
Immigration is America's superpower.
Leaders from India:
CEO of Google 🇮🇳
CEO of Microsoft 🇮🇳
CEO of Starbucks 🇮🇳
CEO of YouTube 🇮🇳
CEO of Adobe 🇮🇳
CEO of World Bank 🇮🇳
CEO of IBM 🇮🇳
CEO of Albertsons 🇮🇳
CEO of NetApp 🇮🇳
CEO of Novartis 🇮🇳
Staple green cards to diplomas.
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Any U.S. trade deal that links market access to more visas is a bad bargain for American workers.
“India's Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal is in the US to seek an end to the impasse and reach a bilateral trade deal by the fall of this year, with the mobility of skilled workers being vital to India's services exports.”
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A U.S. jury recently found Cognizant guilty of discriminating against non-Indian workers in favor of H-1B visa workers from India.
As it turns out, these are ALL Indian companies that import H-1B tech workers en masse:
Cognizant (93k)
Infosys (61k)
Tata Consultancy Services (60k)
Wipro
Capgemini
HCL
Compunnel
Tech Mahindra
Mphasis
These aren’t American companies that needed international talent to fill critical roles. They’re foreign companies that appear to have been founded to place overseas tech workers into US companies as contractors.
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H-1B visa numbers for FY 2026:
Despite mass tech layoffs and voter backlash—especially after the Christmas H-1B uproar—the Trump team stays hands-off: 120,141 NEW H-1Bs selected for FY2026.
Demand remains high despite layoffs—a clear sign U.S. workers are being replaced.
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“After we have killed off every last American in small towns through offshoring, we can now begin to think about bringing these jobs back and letting factories operate their own domestic sweatshops by providing them with exploitable immigrants from destitute nations” — Noah Smith
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Americans are getting laid off and struggling to find work. New grads can’t catch a break. Meanwhile, foreign workers are being hired directly from overseas, sponsored for H-1B visas, and openly sharing tips on how to game the system.
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If ending H-1B isn’t on the table, this rule is the next best thing. Excellent move @howardlutnick!
Now cue the lawsuits. @USCISJoe should push full notice-and-comment to lock it in.
And @SecretaryLCD must follow up by raising H-1B prevailing wages and tightening PERM requirements.
.@POTUS signs a Proclamation to restrict the entry of certain H-1B aliens into the U.S. as nonimmigrant workers, requiring a $100,000 payment to accompany or supplement H-1B petitions for new applications.
AMERICA FIRST!
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Yet the U.S. government continues to issue H-1B visas and work permits to foreign graduates, all because tech giants keep pushing the narrative of an alleged “engineer shortage”.
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FALSE @GrantCardone!
American workers are literally having to train their H-1B replacements before getting their pink slips. It’s strictly about cheap labor.
The United States came close to the top in the latest international educational assessment.
Our computer science graduates outperform graduates from India and China.
The reason H1B is required is because our education system failed our kids. America ranks 13th in reading, 18th in math & science. While India & China emphasize STEM, America promotes liberal arts & diversity inclusion.
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This would be a total betrayal of his voters and all but guarantee a Republican loss in the midterms. Every industry will start demanding amnesty. What’s next — no H-1B reform because Big Tech told @SecRollins to keep the President’s hands off their visa pipeline?
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announces he is working on legislation to protect long-time farm and hospitality workers who get "thrown out viciously," presumably referring to immigration raids.
"Radical right people, who I happen to like, may not be quite as happy, but they'll understand."
Trump says Agriculture Secretary BROOKE ROLLINS brought this issue up.
"Let the farmers be responsible."
His comments in full context:
"We're working on legislation right now where farmers, look, they know better. They work with them for years. You had cases that where not here, but just even over the years where people have worked for a farm for 14, 15 years, and they get thrown out pretty viciously. And we can't do it."
"We got to work with the farmers and people that have hotels and leisure properties, too. We're going to work with them and we're going to work very strong and smart."
"And we're going to put you in charge. We're going to make you responsible. And I think that that's going to make a lot of people happy."
"Now, serious radical right people, who I also happen to like a lot, they may not be quite as happy, but they'll understand, won't they? Do you think so?"
"Madam Secretary [Brooke Rollins], look at you with the white hat on. Do you think they'll understand that you're the one that brought this whole situation up."
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Coinbase outsourced jobs to overseas contractors. Some of them took bribes from hackers and sold sensitive customer data. This is what happens when companies offshore just to save a buck.
Cyber criminals bribed and recruited rogue overseas support agents to pull personal data on <1% of Coinbase MTUs. No passwords, private keys, or funds were exposed. Prime accounts are untouched. We will reimburse impacted customers. More here: coinbase.com/blog/protecting…
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This is the same CEO who tried to replace 200 American workers with H-1B visa holders through outsourcing, until we launched an ad campaign that caught Trump’s attention. Unable to fire the CEO, Trump removed board members one by one until the CEO caved.
Tennessee Valley Authority CEO Jeff Lyash — the highest-paid federal employee with a compensation package of $10.5 million per year — abruptly announced that he was retiring 11 days after the return to office of President Trump, per NYP.
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Cognizant was recently found guilty of discriminating against Americans in favor of H-1B visa workers from India. Here’s Texas Governor @GregAbbott_TX welcoming Cognizant to Irving, TX:
I joined with a Fortune 200 company, Cognizant, to announce 1,000 new jobs in Irving focused on the advanced technology sector. Texas is increasingly home of the future of technology. @MattRinaldiTX joined me. #txlege @Cognizant #TechNews bizjournals.com/dallas/news/…
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There’s no shortage of American talent — Hoffman just doesn’t want to prioritize it. He profits from cheaper, visa-tied foreign labor. Over 60% of H-1B roles are certified below local median wages. It’s about cutting costs, not fostering innovation.
Unfortunately, the truth. Other countries are moving to fill the gap and acquire top talent.
We've completely forgotten how America prospered.
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The ENTIRE H-1B visa program is a fraud!
It wasn’t designed to help employers address shortfall of domestic expertise.
The law was specifically written to help employers legally replace American workers with cheaper foreign labor.
The H1-B program should be reserved for people who would address an important shortfall of domestic expertise.
There is some degree of fraud and considerable incompetence in every government program and H1-B is no exception.
That fraud and incompetence need to be fixed throughout the government.
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Look who finally decided to chime in. Better late than never.
Elon Musk is wrong.
The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire “the best and the brightest,” but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad.
The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make.
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America - keep applying for these jobs on Jobs.Now!
We've got the H1Bs worried!
They know we won't let their company hide their jobs from the millions of eager American workers anymore!
Keep applying!
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Apply for the job, then immediately file a case with the DOJ-IER for ‘citizenship status discrimination’.
cc: @HarmeetKDhillon
"H1B only" on LinkedIn 🧵/
@JobsNowPR @juicystar1908 @VBierschwale @amandalouise416 @USTechWorkers @thejobchick @MrsDoubtFireSF
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The United States is not a jobs program for foreigners. Given the current high unemployment rate among computer and software engineers, your remarks are pure gaslighting and propaganda.
One of the most effective things the U.S. or any other nation can do to ensure its competitiveness in AI is to welcome high-skilled immigration and international students who have the potential to become high-skilled. For centuries, the U.S. has welcomed immigrants, and this helped make it a worldwide leader in technology. Letting immigrants and native-born Americans collaborate makes everyone better off. Reversing this stance would have a huge negative impact on U.S. technology development.
I was born in the UK and came to the U.S. on an F-1 student visa as a relatively unskilled and clueless teenager to attend college. Fortunately I gained skills and became less clueless over time. After completing my graduate studies, I started working at Stanford under the OPT (Optional Practical Training) program, and later an H-1B visa, and ended up staying here. Many other immigrants have followed similar paths to contribute to the U.S.
I am very concerned that making visas harder to obtain for students and high-skilled workers, such as the pause in new visa interviews that started last month and a newly chaotic process of visa cancellations, will hurt our ability to attract great students and workers. In addition, many international students without substantial means count on being able to work under OPT to pay off the high cost of a U.S. college degree. Gutting the OPT program, as has been proposed, would both hurt many international students’ ability to study here and deprive U.S. businesses of great talent. (This won’t stop students from wealthy families. But the U.S. should try to attract the best talent without regard to wealth.)
Failure to attract promising students and high-skilled workers would have a huge negative impact on American competitiveness in AI. Indeed, a recent report by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence exhorts the government to “strengthen AI talent through immigration.”
If talented people do not come to the U.S., will they have an equal impact on global AI development just working somewhere else? Unfortunately, the net impact will be negative. The U.S. has a number of tech hubs including Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York, Boston/Cambridge, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and Austin, and these hubs concentrate talent and foster innovation. (This is why cities, where people can more easily find each other and collaborate, promote innovation.) Making it harder for AI talent to find each other and collaborate will slow down innovation, and it will take time for new hubs to become as advanced.
Nonetheless, other nations are working hard to attract immigrants who can drive innovation — a good move for them! Many have thoughtful programs to attract AI and other talent. There are the UK’s Global Talent Visa, France’s French Tech Visa, Australia’s Global Talent Visa, the UAE’s Golden Visa, Taiwan’s Employment Gold Card, China’s Thousand Talents Plan, and many more. The U.S. is fortunate that many people already want to come here to study and work. Squandering that advantage would be a huge unforced error.
Beyond the matter of national competitiveness, there is the even more important ethical matter of making sure people are treated decently. I have spoken with international students who are terrified that their visas may be canceled arbitrarily. One recently agonized about whether to attend an international conference to present a research paper, because they were worried about being unable to return. In the end, with great sadness, they cancelled their trip. I also spoke with a highly skilled technologist who is in the U.S. on an H-1B visa. Their company shut down, leading them — after over a decade in this country, and with few ties to their nation of origin — scrambling to find alternative employment that would enable them to stay.
These stories, and many far worse, are heartbreaking. While I do what I can to help individuals I know personally, it is tragic that we are creating such an uncertain environment for immigrants, that many people who have extraordinary skills and talents will no longer want to come here.
To every immigrant or migrant in the U.S. who is concerned about the current national environment: I see you and empathize with your worries. As an immigrant myself, I will be fighting to protect everyone’s dignity and right to due process, and to encourage legal immigration, which makes both the U.S. and individuals much better off.
[Full text, with links: deeplearning.ai/the-batch/is… ]
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Senators Grassley and Durbin just slammed Amazon for laying off U.S. workers while chasing more H-1Bs. Yet their “reform” bill rewards that very behavior by giving H-1B visa priority to foreign STEM grads from U.S. schools, where most big tech H-1Bs already come from, ahead of even the highest-paid salary offers. The bill paints outsourcing firms as the only villains, while Big Tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft get a pass. If Grassley really wants to help U.S. grads, as he argued on OPT, he cannot close one door only to open another.
NEW Sen Durbin & I just reintrod our bipartisan bill 2 reduce fraud/abuse in H1B & L1 visa programs + provide protections for American&foreign workers We hv been pushing reforms since 2007 Our legislation is needed now more than ever
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