Posted on 03/15/2021 8:51:24 AM PDT by NobleFree
Two-thirds of entry-level tech jobs go to compliant foreign guest-workers, not to the young American professionals who may create a new wave of establishment-shaking companies, according to a report from Bloomberg.
In 2018, “the U.S. had between 96,000 and 143,000 openings in IT occupations that typically went to candidates with a bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or engineering,” said the March 10 report, headlined “STEM Graduates Deserve a Better Path to Good Jobs.”
But the government each year provides “Occupational Practical Training” (OPT) work permits to hundreds of thousands of foreigners who have paid tuition to American universities. It also invites roughly 85,000 foreign graduates on H-1B work visas, the report says.
“So, OPT participants accounted for anywhere from one-third to one-half of new hires. If you add H-1B candidates, up to two-thirds of openings went to guest workers,” said the report, which relies heavily on Hal Salzman, an expert on high-tech employment at Rutgers University.
Few of the OPT workers are high-skilled, Bloomberg acknowledged: “More than 70% of nonresident computer science master’s degrees awarded in 2018 came from unranked programs, or those ranked 50 and lower by U.S. News and World Report. Just 17% came from schools ranked in the top 25. [universities]”
Breitbart News has extensively reported on the fraud-ridden OPT program — and its sister program, the Curricular Practical Training program — which provides Fortune 500 companies with roughly 400,000 cheap foreign workers each year.
The OPTs — and the many similar H-1B, L-12, J-1, and TN visa workers — fill many starter-jobs and mid-career white-collar jobs in a wide variety of industry sectors, including tech, healthcare, academia, accounting, and design. [...]
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We knew that. Has been happening since at least 1999.
Human Trafficking - bump for later.....
Mike Lee wants it to be 100%
We need more non-compliant foreign guest workers to take high-level tech jobs.
As an IT worker, I would advise young people to go into the trades rather than STEM. Plumbers and electricians and whatnot do pretty well. The STEM fields are tough, will not necessarily give you a big paycheck, and the government is clearly stacking the deck against Americans who go into technology.
Some people are really naturally drawn to technology and cannot imagine any other type of career. I think it’s a good choice for people like that. They probably wouldn’t be happy with anything else. But for anyone who is just trying to choose some kind of decent career to put food on their table, I would not advise STEM as a path.
The guy who pumped my septic tank is a college grad who got tired of the corporate political correctness grind and started his own business. Says it’s good money.
Big shout out to Mike Lee.
this stinks so high that it puts a pig farm to shame!
Irwin Feerst almost won the IEEE election several decades ago by raising this very issue.
Corporations in USA have been getting away with this Importation of Cheap “Slave” Labor for years and years ...
Meanwhile,
(1) many capable, qualified Americans go without work (and some major USA corporations won’t even give graduates of leading American universities Courtesy Interviews or, for that matter, acknowledgements of their job applications)
(2) many more American citizens do NOT go to engineering and science college.. because they aren’t stupid.. they realize that their chances of getting jobs are substantially reduced by all this Imported cheap labor, they know that “our” American corporations do NOT want to hire American citizens (no matter how much the colleges advertise for students to take “STEM” majors)
(3) I use the term “slave” because this is the feature these corporations like the best about Importing Labor... the bosses can force these people to work 60 and 70 hour weeks under threat of causing their work visas to be cancelled (returning these workers to Communist China and so forth), and
(4) a good number of enemy spies, especially those from Communist China, get inside access to our technological and scientific research and development secrets and all the very latest new product manufacturing specs
,.,this hurts both our defenses and our economy
(5) but the USA corporations are happy. So happy that they keep paying bribes to Congress and administration after administration to keep letting them import all this alien labor instead of hiring Americans
(6) the politicians are thrilled to keep getting all this filthy lucre $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
(7) the problems continue
Uh make that Indian-Collar...
“As an IT worker, I would advise young people to go into the trades rather than STEM. Plumbers and electricians and whatnot do pretty well. The STEM fields are tough, will not necessarily give you a big paycheck, and the government is clearly stacking the deck against Americans who go into technology.“
I lack the language skills that would be required to fully express how much I agree with this statement.
I retire soon but not soon enough.
Been going on for decades. Such a shame.
Want to stop censorship and the like from google? Cancel H1B Visas.
These folks come from countries with fewer rights than we have here (supposedly).
So, to them, it’s no big deal to suppress speech or gun rights because they have no concept of that.
When I was a hiring IT Mgr/Dir at at Fortune 500 firm. My issue with hiring folks was getting the skills I needed.
India colleges taught their kids MS-SQL, Windows-Server, Oracle-DBA, SAP, Unix-Admin on HP-UX and/or AIX. While American colleges taught theoretical stuff and heavy web app-dev which is what I did not need, as we ran purchased software application packages. Plus American college grad had a salary expectation about 20% higher than what I could pay at mid-point of salary range for entry level person.
The folks from India already knew the tools we used and hit the ground running to then learn how we used the tools in our shop. Once you got past the language barrier and their tendency to over analyze everything. You had to say to them “How about now, time is up”
The Americans I did hire came from 2-year tech colleges on MS-Windows desktop support/config types. Good ones got promoted.
I am an IT worker myself, but I work as a civilian with the Government, and I swore that unless laws like H1B terminated or restricted I will not work in non government IT jobs if they are below mid level especially, too many horror stories I heard going on.
Those of us in IT were aware of this. It’s no secret that you have to speak with an indian accent to actually be considered for many, many posistions in IT.
Thank the Chamber of Amnesty, Business Roundtable and the assorted donor lobbies.
Too lazy to click on the link, but did it explain WHY we hire so many guest workers?
One of our youngest DNA human pool, participated in 2 Bay Area Mathematical Olympiads in his junior high years.
The Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad (BAMO) consists of two exams, each taken by hundreds of students,
After his second one he was basically offered a job and to continue going to school. He and his dad checked it out. The “dorm” was loaded with smart kids from India living in really small spaces with 3-4 other kids in each small space.
They left quickly.
I’m in engineer who got a bachelors in chemical engineering from Berkeley in the 80s and Masters in mechanical engineering from the University of Hawaii in the 1990s
and now for the last 25 or 30 years I’ve worked as an electrician
I’d have to kind of agree there’s always work if you know how to be a good electrician. Plumber. Or someone who can do REAL WORK
My current joke is
Hey ! Zoom Ain’t gonna put solar panels on your house and do your service upgrade
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