Posted on 10/05/2025 8:35:39 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Great point! Americans are illegitimate by definition— unlike everyone Elsa in the world
You wrote: There are plenty of people who have a valid axe to grind with the H-1B process and how it has been used in the American economy.
And of the people I have worked with over the years in technology, I have worked with excellent people of Indian extraction, but it is true, I have also worked with some real duds.
Same can be said of whites, blacks, men, women, Russians, Vietnamese, Filipinos, the list goes on. I never asked their status, so I don’t know. But I will say I worked with a database engineer of Indian extraction who was the best I ever encountered. I would work with or for him any day, any time. Knowledgeable, hard working, congenial, sense of humor-saved my bacon more times than I can count.
Therefore, I am not willing to paint all people of Indian extraction with that same brush some people are, but then again, I have never been victimized by the terrible and anti-American abuses surrounding the use of H-1B visas. I have not walked in those shoes. But I am an American, and I abhor these abuses which must be rectified. And I can fully accept the assertion that these abuses have been used both to reduce IT costs at the expense of American workers AND have been used to fill the upper echelon ranks by Indians who preferentially hire other Indians.
My feeling is, if they are not American Citizens, I have no problem with these H-1B changes. It is all part of re-shoring American expertise and jobs.
We need a thoughtful national conversation on this issue and other related issues - not jingoistic bumper sticker slogans from instigating trolls like marcusmaximus, who is trying to get Free Republic to present itself in a bad light, like the old Democrat Know-Nothing Party.
And doing a good job of it, too...
You forgot the /s. 😉😂😂
I did that for 44 years and I have a horrible memory. I had to tell people “I don’t know the answer but I know where to look it up”. Retiring helped tremendously.
It is in a way a land of opportunities.
I visited there in the early 90s then in 2006, then 2017. It us changing.
The dirt poor in the villages have improved their lives. They have more opportunities.
The thing is that the next level up to super wealthy status is easier in the US due to flexible laws, etc
She came on an opt student visa which then allows you to wirk fir 18 months. Then she has to get an h1-b visa. Only after a few years after studying, but while working and living in the USA only then can she apply for a green card.
Citizenship takes even longer
A troll is a ‘sh*t poster’ who attempts to engage others by first offending them.
Nothing against her but the American Dream is for Americans. We have plenty of unemployed and underemployed Americans who could fill these roles. We never should have had a program that allowed companies to import hordes of cheap labor to undercut Americans’ wages. Indians in particular did not help themselves by being so clannish in hiring only other Indians and they made it very politically easy for Republicans to effectively end the H1B program the way its been by so consistently and overwhelmingly voting Democrat. Neither party wants to import hordes of voters for the other party.
That’s elite speak for ‘my comment made no sense, and so much so that I’m not clever or transparent enough to make the effort, so I’m going to attempt to make you feel stupid.’
So you’re gaslighting us into believing you have a point.
Check.
Yer dumber n dirt.
I know exactly what a troll is. I was replying to your comment, which seemed way over-the-top and out of context of what marcus posted.
Perhaps you need to think a bit before you post a comment.
Because your comment had nothing to do with the content of the article and the ‘troll’s’ comment (if it is a troll).
This I do know. Brahmanism is as much a threat to the US and Western Culture as Islamofascism.
And it is primarily the Brahmanists that are exploiting the H-1B program as a means of colonizing America.
Have you been to central New Jersey lately? Have you seen how Brahmanists are being given the choice jobs of CEO and other senior-management positions of some of the largest, most powerful Big Tech companies....given those positions over others that deserve them far more?
Your reply to marcus was over the top and irrelevant. Instead of posting in the heat of the moment to someone you deem as a troll, take a few breaths, calm down, and then post something that makes sense and articulates the point you want to make.
If we can’t come to FR and voice our opinions — and if we can’t call out a demographic invasion in defense of our country when it is obvious to anyone with eyes to see — then we are no better than the DU.
An ingenious troll indeed, since he’s got freepers like you posting multi-paragraph screeds in defense of his trolling trash.
No matter - “if we can’t come to FR and voice our opinions” - that’s what his aim is, if you’d bother to analyze the breadth and depth of what he posts.
Couched in the lingo of angry conservatism, of course.
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