Posted on 10/26/2025 8:29:21 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Like many Americans, James Fishback, the CEO of investment firm Azoria, appears to be highly critical of the H-1B visa because he feels that foreign workers are stealing American jobs.
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Fishback, the initial developer of the “DOGE checks” tool, has been publicly denouncing the H-1B program in interviews ever since US President Donald Trump slapped $100k fees on H-1B visas.
He has lambasted businesses for employing Indians, especially when they claim they “can't find Americans for these jobs” and are forced to use H-1B visas.
Targeting H1-B Visa, Fishback took to X and wrote: “The H-1B scam is hurting Americans, especially in Florida. If companies in FL want to hire skilled workers, stop importing Indians and hire recent grads from FSU, UF, FAU, and UCF.”
“They are brilliant, hungry, and love our state,” the Azoria CEO added.
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He went on to claim that the unpleasant reality is that they aren't making any attempts to find American workers. “They hide job postings in obscure newspapers to “check the box,” and when no one “applies,” they import another foreign worker, denying yet another qualified American a job, a wage, and the dignity and purpose that come with both. It’s disgraceful. It’s time to finally and fully dismantle the H-1B scamDeep Insights,” he said.
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CEO James Fishback wrote on X: “The H-1B scam is hurting Americans, especially in Florida.”
“If companies want skilled workers, stop importing Indians.”
“...... hire recent grads from FSU, UF, FAU, and UCF.....”
“They are brilliant, hungry, and love our state,” the Azoria CEO added.
and hire recent grads from FSU, UF, FAU, and UCF.
Odds are a lot of those are foreigners, too.
Wouldn’t they still need to be hired under H1b then?
We need to cut back on foreign student visas too.
As a former engineering student out of FSU, most of the foreigners go back to their home countries, or they did 25 years ago.
Politicians told the millions of American workers, whose jobs were eliminated by outsourcing our manufacturing, to “learn to code”. Those same politicians then gave us the H-1B visas in order to bring foreign IT workers in to undercut the wages of Americans who learned to code.
The dirty truth is the outsourcing of America’s manufacturing supply chains did not reduce costs for US consumers. The multinational corporations sustained price levels and used the increased margins to inflate executive salaries, buy back stock to inflate the value of executive stock options, to fund media advertising to buy favorable press, and to fund PACS to buy votes of politicians.
According to the article today and others, we are facing a demographic cliff with our low birth rate. We will have dramatically fewer people to support an aging population in the next two decades. We boomers will either be clamoring to bring in health care attendants, praying for some kind of carebot or die alone and helpless. No matter, the goal will be to take the nickels out of our eyes when we die, turn us over and shake the loose change from our pockets.
Likewise, industry will be clamoring for people and the current rage against immigrants will reverse if the article is to be beleived. Even our military will not have enough people. That would result in a mercenary force if we could afford it.
Take heart though, China’s birth rate is worse than our own and Russia’s is equal to ours or slightly worse. The new people will come from Africa if we allow them and with that will come other problems.
Have a nice day.
As the kids say: “He ain’t wrong!”
Odds are a lot of those are foreigners, too.
Which is why we need to do something about foreign students coming here. They take up probably the majority of GRA/GTA positions at our universities. So we, the taxpayers, are paying their tuition. I read years ago that France does not allow foreign students unless they can pay for all their own costs & they are not allowed to work while in school. We should do something similar.
Its been a scam for 2 decades. Glad its actually being taken serious now.
He seems to have forgotten the very fine university USF.
Afterworking here 12 months if you do not apply for citizenship, Pi$$ off back to where you came from and you are blackballed from applying.
One problem is the complexity of sub-sub-contractor recruiting firms. They call me on the phone, obviously overseas from India. When I answer, they hang up. Then they record me as not available. The prime contractor always has plausible deniability behind the layers of sub-sub-contractors.
I have worked in IT beside many Indians. Some are excellent. Some are average. Some are totally incompetent and add negative value to the project.
Sometimes the project requires workers who understand the business requirements, the purpose and use of the product.
Example, The GA voter registration system used in 2020 was designed and coded in India by Indians who had no understanding of US or GA law and customs. They were sub-contractors of HAVA friends of Sen Chris Dodd, CT. Two Indians with H1b would frequently travel back to India for their grandmother’s funeral. We used to joke about how many grandparents an Indian could have.
When in India they would get on the web call and converse both with those in CT and GA, and the coders who were obviously in the same room as them in India.
It wasn’t just a lack of understanding US and GA law and customs. They also lacked IT skills. For example, the DBA could not understand the concept of Normalize and de-Normalize of data, which led to security beaches blamed on Americans.
Note, on other projects I have worked beside Indians who are highly skilled and excellent. They aren’t all the same. But we can find incompetent Americans to do the work. We don’t need to export work to incompetents.
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Those $100,000 are genial!
It is not that huge, so if a company really needs somebody so much and cannot find any US candidate, they are welcome to pay that money and import a worker.
So we can still get the real talent from abroad, if needed!
If they are not willing to pay that money, then, obviously, they are just looking for some cheap laborer, to undercut American workers.
Everyone in the engineering, software, systems, IT, network worlds knows all about the abuses of the H1B foreign worker programs.
Everything he said is undeniably true.
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