One of my boys clued me in to H1B abuse.
He took a job at a company in Houston which did deep sea oil geology surveys. These are done by boats dragging transducers, and generate huge amounts of data.
He said that the work situation was terrible. Of course it was compounded by the drop in oil over the 2 years he was there, but that wasn’t the real problem. The place was full of H1B workers, mostly Chinese and Indians. It made him a stranger in his own country.
The real problem is this: Supposedly the H1B rules set a minimum salary for an H1B worker that is comparable to that for a similarly skilled American worker. But the reality is different. Once an H1B worker takes such a job, his continued presence in the US depends on him keeping that job. The companies know this, and flog the workers mercilessly. 70 or more hours a week, with heavy weekend involvement is common. Now, if the H1B lasts through that for either 3 or 4 years, he becomes eligible for a green card, and his life becomes much better—he can compete directly with Americans in better working conditions.
If you’re working in the H1B shop, if you’re American, you’ve got to do those same hours. After all, you’re a professional, not an hourly worker, they say. You get a salary, and you do your job, no matter how long it takes. Or more likely, you do 1 1/2 to 2 jobs.
There’s a lot of places that operate this way, with Master’s or Ph.D. H1B’s treated like indentured servants. Bad for them, but also bad for us—because it deindustrializes the US, because the word gets out that STEM can be bad career deal, rather than the glamorized way it is currently portrayed.
Most professionals in the IT industry have fought the “Establishment” their whole life which has tried relentlessly to impoverish them through taxation, affirmative action, and with programs like H-1B. The US government/corporate/globalist complex is the enemy, no question about it.