“has struck Indian citizens harder than other foreign nationals”
As anyone in the Silicon Slum knows, that’s because the H1-B visas are almost 100% given to Indians.
If you read the Indian press, H1-B visa’s are considered an entitlement to them. After that, you can bring the extended family and get them on SSI ASAP.
Which explains why Sunnyvale in the evening looks like a retirement home in Mumbai since all the parents wander the streets in a country they know nothing about and had nothing to do with.
As I keep telling people, LOTS of Indians who are over here are not doing tech jobs. There are tons of middle management positions that could be filled by Americans which are instead filled with H1B Indians because they are CHEAPER.
No, these are hardly jobs Americans are unwilling to do or incapable of doing. You simply do not need any kind of advanced computer skills to do a lot of the roles I see filled by Indians.
and no, I don’t hate Indians. My best since I was 4 years old is Indian though he’s an American having been born and raised here. It just hits you as an overwhelming fact when you look and see who is filling white collar jobs at a lot of companies. He H1B system has been massively abused by companies to get CHEAP labor.