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Posted on 06/04/2025 4:24:41 PM PDT by mbrfl
Reporting Highlights
Temp to Permanent: There’s periodic debate over the 120,000 foreigners annually awarded temporary H-1B visas, but almost no attention to the process by which many receive green cards.
Filled, Then Verified: Foreign workers are eligible for permanent residency only when no U.S. citizens can do the job — but companies confirm that after foreigners have been employed as temps.
Lost in Print: The law also requires that companies advertise these jobs in the classified ads of Sunday print newspapers, decreasing the chances that U.S. applicants see the listing.
It’s a tough time for the rank-and-file tech worker or computer science graduate looking for a job. The Silicon Valley giants have laid off tens of thousands in the past couple years. The longstanding threat of offshoring persists, while the new threat of AI looms.
There is seemingly one reason for hope, which you won’t find in popular hiring websites like Indeed.com or ZipRecruiter. It’s exclusively in the help-wanted classifieds in printed newspapers. Every Sunday, metropolitan newspapers across the country are full of listings for tech jobs, with posted salaries sometimes exceeding $150,000. If you’ve got tech skills, it seems, employers are crying out for you, week after week.
One day this spring, I decided to test this premise. I set out with the classified pages from the most recent Sunday edition of The Washington Post, which were laden with tech job offerings in the suburbs of Northern Virginia and Montgomery County, Maryland.
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I read the story. I can’t tell if they are bashing Trump for not cracking down on tech immigration fraud or proud that tech companies are getting away with it.
Yet Trump supports scumbags like Vivek who push more of this crap.
Didn’t Musk tell someone opposed to h1b to ‘[fornicate] your own face’?
Musk and Vivek lost that argument.
Years ago I remember seeing these ads in the paper. They usually sounded something like “Wanted, PhD in high energy particle physics. Must have 10+ years experience and be fluent in at least one eastern Asian language. Starting salary $35k/yr”.
I hope they do lose that argument. As some freeper here succinctly put it - ‘we are a country with an economy, not an economy with a country.’
Yup, billionaires gonna billionaire.
These ADs may be part of the PERM process.
>>”I read the story. I can’t tell if they are bashing Trump for not cracking down on tech immigration fraud or proud that tech companies are getting away with it.”
Neither.
While the quantity that should be allowed in is a separate argument, an easy fix for much of the H1b would be to simply move it from a lottery to an auction. Instead of “It Consultants” like Tata submitting multiple fake applications to ensure their guys have a better chance of getting one, let the hiring company bid on how much they’ll pay to hire an H1b into these positions no American will do. If they gotta spend more than market price, then they’ll start hiring more Americans, as well as only hiring H1bs in positions they actually can’t legitimately find an American for.
Yes, what you said ..
In 2010, there were seminars around Pittsburgh on the topic of how to NOT hire Americans. A reporter actually posed as an IT firm and videotaped the seminars, then posted them online. There was such an outcry that firms felt pressured (until the brouhaha blew over) to actually give Americans a shot. My daughter had classmates, high school sweethearts, who got married and she found a job locally but he could only find a job in Allentown (opposite end of the Commonwealth) and come home on weekends. He was one of the lucky ones hired locally as a token American at this time.
“Yet the system has endured for decades, largely out of public view.“
Someone’s getting paid…
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