Disgusting. Make these companies PROVE that there are no American applicants before allowing a single one to come here.
Dont even bother. There ARE lots of Americans who can fill every single job held by an H1B — just not at H1B prices.
WTH? Who’s gonna mine all that gold they just discovered?
All the hopes I had in sacrificing years to useful learned high-level research and engineering were wasted, years of a decent living income as a return of that investment . . . lost.
Keep these foreigners out. Let them make their own countries self-sufficient, not rob and take over ours.
“Make these companies PROVE that there are no American applicants before allowing a single one to come here.”
Any such ‘proof’ would be bogus.
My immigration reform plan would simply make the companies pay a $4/hour tax if the imported worker makes less than $30/hour. And yes, they’d have to punch a clock.
My IT shop gave a $100 million contract to an American Big IT company in May 2018. They tried until Aug 2019 to hire competent IT workers. They were open to both consultants (mostly from TEK) but also from half a dozen other firms, and employees. They did not discriminate.
Out of about 100 brought in and 75 on the job at the end, this Big IT company could not find more than 3 or 4 competent (none in managementJ). The top 10 executives were all incompetent...meaning that had no clue what was needed on this project. The contract and the company’s response to the RFP were very clear English. But they clearly did not understand IT and IT projects.
In Aug 2019 my IT shop canceled the contract. Many lawyer are currently employed getting most of the money, rather than IT workers.
The unqualified workers that were brought in the the best they could find were a mix of Natural born citizen, naturalized, green card, H1b and probably illegals. (who was checking? Certainly not the sub-contractors of consulting companies.)
The lesson is that there is a worldwide shortage of competent IT workers. Asian Indians (including the incompetent ones) are willing to move to where the jobs are (in my case Atlanta.) Many Americans (both competent and incompetent are at a disadvantage because they do not want to move to where the jobs are.)
From the day I left the Army in 1967 to November 2012 I was always able to find the next consulting assignment in 2 days in Illinois. From Nov 2012 to Apr 2013 IL had no jobs. I saw plenty of jobs in Red States. But it took me (and my wife) half a year to wake up and admit I had to move to where the jobs are.
I see new Yankee immigrants to Atlanta. Some waited years in Democrat Rust Bet cities before finally realizing they had to move to where the jobs are.
That is the job market. Some Americans go where the jobs are. But not enough. And not in a timely manner. The American job market has several irrational features, unemployment comp being just one of them. Asian Indians are eager to go where the jobs are. Advantage, Asian Indians.