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The crazy part is that it has been abused for many years. People come here on work visa and next thing they have a kid and some lie that they are citizens so that their kids become citizens, that's because it's not verified.
Academia, and companies hiring foreigners instead of citizens.
The biggest scammers are outsourcing firms like Tata. They spam the visa applications and dont have a real job or work for them to do unless they find a client like IBM or Disney then pay them slave labor rate. It should not be used for outsourced labor that lead to layoffs of Americans
Look at the news. Its all over the news that H1-B visas are going to be the target of one of his next round of EOs.
I dunno how they are going to do it but one idea I read was instead of issuing them by lottery they would issue them to the business willing to pay the highest wages first.
There is a need for engineers and nuclear fusion scientists not for accountants and IT analysts
YES!!!!
But the events on the FRiday night with people being detained, being stranded even with all the right legal documents would be an alarm for a person with those skills looking to come to the USA. They want to be able to travel freely & have family visit. This is not the type of situation that makes it attractive to those highly skilled workers.
The crazy part is that it has been abused for many years. People come here on work visa and next thing they have a kid and some lie that they are citizens so that their kids become citizens, that's because it's not verified.
Academia, and companies hiring foreigners instead of citizens.
Stop the abuse.
They don't have to lie. If the kid is born here he gets a birth certificate to quote Spicer "period".
The biggest chunk of H1B visa holders are poorly trained (in many cases) computer/IT techies from India.
Millions of six figure paying IT/coding jobs have been taken by foreign workers from India.
It has reached to a point that these Indians have created a very powerful mafia where in many cases, a US Citizen-American graduate does not stand a chance on landing such a job if the hiring manager is an Indian - which is almost always the case.
In majority of cases, these jobs are not even advertised. They will simply bring in a large charter jet after a charter jet, fully loaded with poorly trained IT workers from Tamil Nadu or something. These high school or two year college techies start with around $100 an hour from day one. This is about $200K a year that employer pays to these Indians and their recruiting agents - in contrast to an American Graduate MBA who starts internship at $35K a year after 16 years of education.
IMO, Every single fortune 1000 company is at a total mercy of Indians in the IT department.
THIS is the area where these highly lucrative jobs should be given back to American citizens.
Additional Blue collar jobs aren't going to cut it for us.
However, the problem is, USA does not produce that many IT professionals. If H1B visa is abolished overnight, the entire country will come to a stand still. Even the U.S. govt offices would be crippled since they are heavily dependent on H1B Indian computer techies.
The end of H1B should be a gradual process where we should first block the way to permanent residency and US citizenship through H1B route.
Then invest in IT Education to produce more graduates and fill up all those jobs that will open by 100's thousands every year when current H1B holders will be send back to India after no extension to their work visa.
Donald Trump probably thinks "STEM" refers to one of an attractive long-legged woman's lower appendages.
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