This is soooo dishonest. We have the STEM talent.
Infosys is one of the worst abusers.
I work in IT and as far as I can tell, I am one of two people that voted for Trump at my company. Hillary promised infinite H1-b visas if she were elected, yet nearly everyone in a software development company voted for her.
Too bad the real news is that congressional legislation is doubling and more the numbers of H1B, H2B, and others. A big disconnect. And will Trump veto that any legislation increasing foreign workers? I sure hope so.
How dare he try to help AMERICAN workers, that’s just plain racist.
Most of the visas are controlled by a small handful of Indian firms that bring Indian semi-tech workers like quality control workers or lab workers to the united states. They barely speak English and are not from the best universities. And they work for Indian companies who hire them out to American companies while paying them far less. Its a scam that allows these Indian companies to make billions off this slave labour.
That, with a long overdue realization that most foreign-born tech workers are over-documented and under-qualified.
85,000 per year for 6 years means there are half a million H1Bs in the country at any one time.
This definitely holds wages down, when it doesn’t put people out of work altogether.
When I started, companies ran training programs for new hires. They needed people that bad, that they would actually train them. They stopped doing that, in my business, years ago. Why would you, when you can just hire a boatload of guys from Bangalore?
Every policy initiative by Trump is a winner for the middle class. The biggest winner for the middle class is yet to come...TARIFFS! When FAIR trade replaces UNFAIR FREE trade, America will be Great again.
Notice, that the Paul Ryan Republicans all want to dramatically increase the number of H1Bs per year.
We need to put a 50% tariff on H-1B visa holder’s salaries. The money paid will go into scholarships for American citizens who study STEM programs at university. The goal being that US citizens replace those foreigners holding H-1B visas.
My company solved the problem by buying an Indian dev company and they just do all the staffing out there. My division uses all local talent but they loaned me out to another division that uses all indian workers because they’re months behind schedule and I’ve already caught them up.
We know that there is NOT a shortage of STEM talent because of:
* STEM wages being mostly flat for years
* the tendency to push people out in their 40s when they’d be retained if there was a shortage
* a third of STEM graduates are not working in STEM - if there’s a shortage, more qualified people would be in the professions