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The heated debate over H-1B visa workers obscures the far greater inflows of other foreign workers into the white-collar jobs needed by American college graduates.
The federal government issues about 130,000 new H-1B visas each year — plus another 650,000 visas or work permits to other white-collar migrants each year.
Many of these non-immigrant workers are allowed to stay for five, six, or seven years. The multi-year visas create a resident population of at least 1.5 million white-collar workers.
That growing population is almost twenty times larger than the H-1B program’s inflow of 85,000 new foreign workers every year that the media is focusing on.
“For decades, this has been out of control,” said Kevin Lynn, the founder of U.S. Tech Workers, which campaigns against the visa worker programs.
The huge giveaway annually delivers roughly two foreign workers for every American who graduates from a four-year college with a skilled degree in science, software, computers, business, healthcare, or engineering.
The programs also deliver two foreign workers into the career-starting jobs needed by every young American who graduates with a four-year degree in “STEM,” or science, technology, engineering, and math.
The migrants are not legal immigrants. They are government-approved contract workers or just-graduated foreign students, and their vulnerable legal status allows employers to treat them badly and undercut pay for American graduates.
“There are about a million work-visa issuances a year … it’s gone up about 25 percent in recent years,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
The programs’ complexity and lack of transparency are intended to help employers smuggle more white-collar workers into American jobs, Vaughan said. more
President Trump has to rein in Elon & Vivek on this H-1b issue or risk losing his base.
Nobody ever brings it up but I’m sure they are non union jobs.
Personally I don’t care for Unions but I’m certain this is done to avoid union wages and the ridiculous requirements of union labor. Plus the 10% lower wages it’s a jackpot for the employer.
All this shit needs to be fixed. And precision machine shops, as an example, still can’t get anyone to even apply for a job. Our domestically born children do not want to work. Now what? Nobodies mentioned on the plethora of threads here on this topic the impact of state mandated DEI. If MJA friends that were replaced by foreign born workers were in the Semi Conductor industry they were a victim of DEI not H1-B. Mandated in the CHIPs act by Pelosi and Crenshaw.
https://youtu.be/LcdM0uDl6Kk?si=SsD2roTUFENvfdur
^^^Oh shit, now Disney is behind it.
Aaaaaaaaand… Trump supports Musk and now thinks that H1Bs are the best thing since sliced bread. What have we become?
Echoing Brad’s comment, which I think is correct, the American collegiate credentials apparatus has been completely corrupted by DEI, to the point that employers should be suspect of any graduate, no matter the degree and no matter the college, because these no longer translate to high levels of competency.
If an American employer wants to hire domestically, but the candidates are not only lacking in competency, but they come pre-packaged with wild expectations about pay packages and working conditions, where is he to turn?
Is it just possible that those friends of MJA that got replaced by Indians, is it possible the replacements were better qualified, had better levels of expertise, had a more robust work ethic and (the boss thought) would enhance productivity and profitability?
The problem lies in our universities and their inability to prepare their graduates for worldwide competition. No boss owes anyone a job.
Rich Taylor
There’s another aspect of this too that hasn’t been discussed. Fed and state mandates on employers for employee benefits have become so cumbersome that smaller businesses look to employment agencies for staffing. The employment agencies manages all the crap you are subjected to and shields you from any liability. Like the penalties involved in Newsoms relatively new retirement package for employees we need to fund. Managing this crap takes a full time HR person. A olt of these H1-B employees are hired, actually attached to, an employment agency. I know the massive amount of Indians that work for Intel here in Folsom Ca don’t work direct for Intel. They work for an employment agency. By the way Intel Folsom’s parking lot is empty right now. Any day, any time. They use to run around the clock.
Intel’s woes are a separate problem.
With manufacturing delays, loss of market share, and failing faulty chips, their business is cratering. Intel has been dead money for 10 years, their retired CEO is giving Michael Eisner a run for the absolute worst CEO in the last fifty years.
At one point Intel was my largest holding, have been reducing positions in the last few years, what a disappointment.
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One of my wifes best friends husband was top dog at the Folsom Facility. He was complaining to me 10 years ago that Intel was investing zero time, money, effort into R&D.
TSMC and Intel are building to huge builds in Phoenix. Across the street from each other. We drove past them last time we visited. An impressive amount of real estate. Both builds are dead stopped. And the reason is they can’t meet with the bench marks and demands specified for DEI in the CHIPs act that they both signed up for.
Our Government really needs to learn to keep it’s ass out of free enterprise.
And another problem is Wall Street and Upper Management bonuses. Upper Management bonuses are stock options so they have the incentive to keep the stock price artificially high for the short term until they can cash in their bonus. A perfect example is Boeing. Since the late ’90’s Boeing has spent $ 60 billion on stock buybacks, not R&D or product improvement. Their DEI crap is just noise compared to the damage they have done with their stock buybacks which are basically self-dealing, i.e. keeping the stock at an artificial price. This happens across many industries with no push back what so ever. Since at least 2010 Boeing’s CEO has been a finance accounting person not an engineer. And to compound it, the largest shareholder in these companies is BlackRock, Vanguard or State Street, so they can keep the buybacks going and have enough clout to where the SEC or other swamp creatures won’t investigate or call it into question.
^^^ I like stock buybacks. Sure, they have to be exercised judiciously and in tandem with R&D spending but I prefer stock buybacks over dividend hikes. doing these tells The Street that your stock is attractively priced, and for the investor, it allows me to realize gains on the back end, paying capital gains taxes (lower than ordinary income rates).
America has perhaps the most educated waitstaff of any country – but be sure you go to college and rack up some serious debt so you can proudly hang your degree next to the drive-thru window.