Your post confirmed what I’ve been suspecting. The problem is with the H-1B fraud, rather than the program itself. It remains to be seen whether or not the incoming administration has the will to address those problems. Posters have also described cases where fully qualified people have been unable to get jobs because of the DEI forces in play. One of my online bridge partners is from India and he got a job in the US in 2024 after completing his Masters in environmental engineering in the US. He told me he understands completely that not being white was a major factor in his hiring in mostly homogeneous Salt Lake City. But he also wants to go back to India where his family lives and where he hopes to take a wife and become a professor of engineering. This is a position of great prestige and security in India, and his US work experience will vault him ahead of many candidates who were educated and got their work experience in India.
If the affirmative action policies introduced and enforced by the government are eliminated, companies would be more free to simply hire the best candidates. The Supreme Court ruled that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes (except military academies) violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. They’ve yet to address DEI or affirmative action in hiring, which could be a land mine of such epic proportions that the USSC may decline to hear cases challenging those rules.
Red Yarn needs to be strung between all the H1-B statistics and the (ongoing) revised Bureau of Labor statistics.
Are there really jobs for anyone?
Say the ‘R’ Word.