If I spent all this time doing engineering and I can’t get a job because of some foreigner, I will be pissed.
Liberal school curricula undermine our student’s ability to compete for these positions.
Get the liberal social agenda’s out of school and get back to basics on the courses offered and promoted.
Well-sourced and well-written article by Mrs. Schlafly, exposing yet another way that America is intentionally killing itself, exchanging short-term profit for long-term ruin.
Just another example of how this president views himself—not as an American citizen but as a citizen of the ‘world.’ His every action is to bring Americans down.
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Thanks for the post.
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I am looking forward to the day when most media jobs along with law firm positions are outsourced or H1-B’ed.
There are some, even on this forum, that defend the H1B program, but I can tell you that it definitely takes American IT jobs, - took mine! When you go to interview you must interview with an Indian guy and if you’re not another H1B, you’re wasting your time and being humiliated in the process.
Thanks. Good article to post for the “while I’m against illegal immigrtion, I’m all for legal immigration” crowd.
Because years ago, the first Bush administration made a deal with India to export as many jobs as India wanted if they would be our military ally in Central Asia. That was later expanded under Slick to include China, which is kind of odd because China was the threat we were trying to neutralize in allying with India in the first place.
I have seen first hand the games played by organizations who use a revolving door of Indian engineers (hardware and software) to keep the wage scale depressed for American engineers.
The bean counters never want to pay for the highly diverse skill set and training (WAY more than any MBA)required to be a good engineer capable of developing systems for anything from skate boards to rockets so to keep the wage scale in line they use these H1Bs.
Never let your children become an engineer. To be really good you must not only have a great foundation in lets say electronics and software but you MUST continually keep abreast of the ever changing technology which comes much faster than the latest MBA scam for improving the bottom line by avoiding taxes, suppressing wages, tracking the age of the staff (see note 1 at end), stealing rebates from your customers (see note 2 at end) etc.
And, unless you work for an Engineering Firm, you will always be a spare tire. By that I mean, the mahogany row crowd will only call on you when they need something otherwise stay hidden in the trunk less you be seen by one of the MBA types at the golf outing.
One thing I found as Corporate Director Of Engineering for a $50B/year company was you tend to believe these H1B people understand English as they sort of speak it, but believe me there is a huge disconnect.
NOTE: I caught the HR department tracking the age of every member of the office staff so as to make sure they never reached retirement. In 16 years, in an office of 200+ only one person retired the rest were pushed out.
NOTE: One division (of 50+) was caught twice stealing major portions of customer rebates for consumables which were agreed upon in the contract. They were the division’s largest customer. They left. The mahogany row crowd had already been promoted because of the huge contribution to the bottom line, (with stolen money). The spare tire remained in the trunk.
Follow the money. At my corp, we have crap loads of Chinese and Indians.
The more the company lays off, the more foreigners they bring.
This has been going on for the last decade, particularly within the last 5 years.
I have an H1-B and I can tell you right now - NO American can do what I do. H1-Bs need to be granted off of salary as opposed to a lottery. A person’s value to the economy can be objectively judged by that. That would eliminate the “low tech” people getting 20k/yr on an H1-B.
The two simple reforms that would fix the system:
1. We let in the top 68,000 based on the highest salaries, not the first to apply.
2. After 3 months in the US, each H1B is free to take a job with another employer at a higher salary.
1. Fraudulent credentials masking a lack of education and skills. Most H1-B workers have stellar credentials, usually including multiple technical degrees and certifications. These are often made up out of whole cloth. Always do the footwork to contact the university or certification organization. In several (10+ and counting) cases, I discovered that the issuing authority did not exist.
2. Absenteeism. "But they work so hard and pull such long hours!" you say. But do you factor in the annual 3-6 week leave of absence, usually applied for on short or no notice, without regard for project schedules?
3. Cultural fallout. If you want to see some serious fireworks, hire a Dalit lead engineer and put a Brahman developer under him. Oh, that's right...they won't tell you what caste they are when you hire them. Lucky you. You won't find out that there is an issue until a deadline is missed or someone resigns at a key moment. I'm watching a software team unravel right now because it is composed of two cultural groups that can't even be seen together in public in their home country. Needless to say they don't work well together. The simple social graces that we are accustomed to as Westerners (such as not spitting or shouting) should not be taken for granted.
One cultural anecdote: we once hired an honest-to-God Princess to be a software tester. She didn't TELL us that she was a damned Princess, of course. We found out when she only appeared for work occasionally, insisted on vanishing early on the days that she did deign to appear, and-this is the kicker-tried to outsource her tasks to her personal assistants. She fought tooth-and-nail to keep the job, too. Apparently it was either a rite-of-passage or some sort of religious labor for her. I'm told she still applies for every single job posting.
This is an accurate representation of the H1B sham. Companies only have to ‘say’ that qualified Americans ‘can’t be found.’ In no way is this verified or attested to legally.
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This is de facto policy already for foreign STEM Ph.D's (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math).
They essentially receive a six year work visa with their graduate degree.
A truly determined Ph.D can almost always turn this six year window into a Green Card, a sham marriage, or USA citizenship.
Reports that foreign STEM Ph.D's are sent home are 99% bunk.
About 80% of Western European, Japanese, and oil rich Middle Eastern Ph.D's return voluntarily to their home nation, where their pay, status, opportunity, and standard of living is similar to the USA.
Close to 80% of Chinese, Russian, Indian, and Eastern European Ph.D's stay permanently in the USA.
If you ever wonder why so few native born Americans get a STEM Ph.D, competing for jobs against desperate scholars from third world countries is a very good reason.
Foreign STEM students with just a Bachelor's degree also have abundant opportunities.
The most determined ones can easily get a one or two year internship in the USA.
They get a fraction of the pay a new American graduate would receive, they never argue with the boss, and they never threaten to change jobs.
Guess who gets hired first?