Great article. The open border GOP liars have hid this issue for a decade.
There’s a lot to be angry about. The H-1B program has caused massive layoffs of American workers and over a decade of wage stagnation. More infuriating is that the victims of H-1B are Americans who played by the rules, got an education in a growing field, and thought they’d have a career future.
There have been bipartisan reasons to keep the public in the dark about H-1B and keep them focused on low wage workers.
If you want to see what’s really going on with immigration policy, look at the cash.
Take a look at a list of the top lobbyists on the issue of immigration and it’s a high-tech wonderland. Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Qualcomm, Motorola, Google, and, of course, Facebook are all the household names that are spending millions of dollars to influence politicians on immigration.
The H1-B program IS a racket to drive salaries down. A race to the bottom. One thing connected “head-hunters” will do is come up with completely unrealistic job requirements to try to ensure that no American could qualify for the job, and bring in a foreigner who would work for significantly less, while the head-hunter got a great fee.
I’ve mentioned this before, but in 2005, I was looking for a job, and saw something that was absolutely perfect for me. At the time I had 4 different Novell Master CNE certifications, and was “Master Certified Novell Instructor” as well. The job requirements were basically all of Novell’s products, and not only did I hold certifications in all of them, I was certified by Novell to TEACH courses on them! Needless to say, I did NOT get the job.
Years later, I learned that the company that was looking for someone was a company where I had set up their pilot project, and come up with their plan to migrate from IBM OS/2 Lan Server to Novell, and then educated all of their administrators!
The guy the head-hunter brought in lasted 6 months, and convinced the company to give up on Novell, and move to Microsoft, which cost the company millions of dollars. I was told had they known I was available at the time, they would have hired me on the spot.
Mark