Posted on 11/01/2025 9:01:58 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The U.S. Department of Labor under the Trump administration has released a new social media ad alleging that some companies are misusing the H-1B visa program to displace young American workers. The campaign singles out India as the primary country benefiting from the visa system, reigniting debate over its impact on the domestic job market.
“Young Americans have had the American Dream stolen from them, as jobs have been replaced by foreign workers due to rampant abuse of the H-1B visa,” the department wrote in a post on X.
The post added: “Under the President of the United States and Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer leadership, we’re holding companies accountable for their abuse and recapturing the American Dream for the AMERICAN PEOPLE.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanbazaaronline.com ...
MIGA!
As an American software engineer for the last several decades, I can assure that opportunities and wages have been significantly suppressed by foreigners with H1B visas. The wages part is by design no doubt.
The H1B visa program must be canceled and current H1B visa holders sent home to make their own countries great. The program is counter productive to it’s stated goal, as most government programs are. It’s also immoral for America to strip mine human capital from other nations.
MAGA!
So uh...Owen...which part of the Wasatch Front do you hole up in? Lehi? Tremonton? Or some other out of the way backwoods town like um Richfield?
There are entire cities in California that are now ethnically Asian majority like San Jose, Cupertino and Saratoga because of the mass influx mostly from India.
If the H1B program is all about filling in technical shortfalls, why is it 80% Indian? Are Germans/French/British/Polish/Italian/Swiss/Greek people unable to do technical jobs? That would be a bit shocking since they invented most of the technical world and still have a rather large part in it.
But I guess if you have a narrow, isolated view you might think it’s not like that...but let me assure you, having been right in the forefront of it, it IS like that.
Trump is Dead Right. India used H1B to invade and arrogate American jobs and companies, and used their “protected class” status to accomplish that.
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If the H1B program is all about filling in technical shortfalls, why is it 80% Indian? Are Germans/French/British/Polish/Italian/Swiss/Greek people unable to do technical jobs?
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I have no data on the number of H1B visa requests from Europeans with STEM bachelor degrees that were refused. Maybe an AI does, lemme look
The information available discusses the overall H-1B visa approval rate and compares it to other visa categories, noting that only 20% of H-1B registrations result in approved workers due to the annual cap of 85,000 visas.
In fiscal year 2025, over 300,000 qualified high-skilled individuals were denied H-1B status. The provided context does not specify the number of European STEM graduates who applied for or were refused H-1B visas.
The STEM grads in Europe maybe didn’t apply? Didn’t want to come to the US.
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To marcus’s developer:
Looks like your India graphics trollink subroutine is up and runnink.
So you got that going for you.
Wrong. Well, actually, right but for the wrong reasons.
I work with AI on a nearly daily basis. Even the most advanced AI is incapable of authoring any significant software. Sure, I can make it do the simplest things. I cannot tell you the last time I coded a Regex. But anything worth a damn? Nope.
And I have a MIT certification in AI and Business Impacts; I'm learning Machine Learning next semester; I use AI Prompt Frameworks such as COAST, CREATE, TACO, and STEER, so I know what I'm talking about.
AI, at this moment in time, is nothing more than a high-brow pattern-recognition and pattern-matching tool. It's a very interesting and powerful one, but it is not truly creative. It does not possess the intuition and creativity of a human.
Will it someday? Maybe, if it doesn't go off the rails first. Once I get some time again, I intend to write about this topic in my next sci-fi novel.
Now, many managers believe AI will lessen the need for developers. After they figure it out, that AI is not a panacea, I expect there will be a GREATER need for developers... those who know how to leverage AI. Management has been lured before by 'panacea promises'... SSIS, low-code solutions, no-code solutions... and while they have helped drive developer productivity, in no way did they ever supplant the need for developers.
AI will not replace developers. Developers who leverage AI will replace developers.
Looks like AI marcus’s developer hasn’t coded a Free Republic donations subroutine just yet.
Can’t trust it with a credit card, I guess. 😉😂😂
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