Posted on 12/05/2025 5:42:57 AM PST by Eleutheria5
A growing number of IT staffing firms are posting help wanted ads that say the quiet part out loud: Americans need not apply. Federal law prohibits this—duh—but in an industry reliant on an H-1B program that provides visas to more than 700,000 immigrants, the Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium “identified over two dozen job postings since 2024 that appear to bar applications from U.S. citizens” in favor of visa holders. Many of the companies behind them tout their commitment to DEI.
Take LanceSoft, an IT staffing firm committed to “diversity, equality, and inclusivity.” In a post to an IT jobs aggregator site advertising a $60-per-hour role, the company said it strives “to be as diverse as the clients and employees we partner with” and embraces “people of any race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender identity, and sexual orientation.” But candidates “must hold an active H1B visa.”
“The posts illustrate what Trump administration officials say is a common form of hiring discrimination that has long been underpoliced,” writes Sibarium. “They come as conservatives are debating the merits of the H-1B visa program, which some argue has been abused by employers to hire foreign workers—especially Indian outsourcers—at the expense of American ones.”
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Any state and the Fed must step in and blacklist any such company from gov’mt contracts. And, a blacklist like this must apply to sub-contractors — if ContA has a Fed contract but it subs to one of these clown outfits then ContA loses the Fed contract.
H1B assumes that there aren’t any Americans willing and able to do the work. But there are.
And if a company is willing and able to train foreign techies, they can certainly train Americans.
The fact that we haven’t severely limited the program is very disappointing to me. The program should be limited to only very senior people, and no company should be able to have more than a small handful of H1Bs on staff, and only for the two or three years it takes to train their American replacements.
The current differential for data center techs at a Fortune 500 tech company: US Contractors $38/hour. H1B Contractors (Infosys) $20/hour. There are other considerations but rarely talked about. The H1Bs generally have far better “soft skills” like showing up to work on time, respectful and deferential to managers/administrators. By and large they are very grateful to have the employment and it shows in their attitude. The H1Bs can be counted on to stay awhile as well. Most US contractors are looking to be a full time employee and as soon as they get an offer they are outta there.
You want bad code hire non-Americans. We spend half our time fixing offshored crap. And when you try and explain things to them, they cannot understand you.
My salary has been stagnant for about 5-7 years now. Switching jobs doesn’t help either.
No, most companies today go for cheap, not quality. In order to increase my rate, I had to specialize. It helped for a few years, then it started all over again, having to compete with low cost foreigners. I had to prove myself better all the time or I would be replaced. That was a government gig I had for my last 11 years in the business as a senior project leader consultant for the State of New Jersey Judiciary. There was as many contractor/consultants as there were employees, and about 70% of the hired help was foreign green card holder contractors. That was 10 years ago, I’m sure it’s worse now.
I spent 20 years in IT before retiring. I had similar experiences. Found the Indians, especially the ones I worked with at IBM to be quite arrogant and not smarter either. The company I was initially was working for was turning into a miniature Mumbai.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOo WHAT SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS CAN THEY PROVIDE??????
I actually saw them stop what they were working on and with their prayer rugs would kneel on it and pray several times a day. Funny thing was they had no idea which direction was east towards Mecca. Yes, some of them were quite arrogant. I put several in their place many times. Did you work at the Sterling forest facility?
The “No Americans need apply” has pretty much been the standard in tech for decades, but maybe this is the first time a company actually put it in writing.
Riyaz Ansari?
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The guy’s an Iranian?
“If I hear a thick foreign accent I ask for an agent who speaks my language, English”
You’re lucky. When I do that, the call mysteriously disconnects.
This keeps happening when I forward a link from my phone substack to my laptop e-mail. Sorry. Here you go.
‘No US Citizens’: Meet the IT Firms Discriminating Against Americans
https://freebeacon.com/america/no-us-citizens-meet-the-it-firms-discriminating-against-americans/
Good luck.
The program is the problem. Firms want indentured servants whom they can pay less money. While the Trump fees will suck some of this attitude out of the program, the people doing the hiring overwhelmingly want their own kind and will default to that position once Trump or his like minded people are out of office.
The long-term solution is either to keep a substantial fee in place or require a premium (such as at least 10% of prevailing salary) be paid to foreign workers. Japan used the latter strategy when I worked there for 14 years. It not only helped close the skill gap and encourage more domestic workers to get the needed training, it ensured the foreign workers were grateful to the host country for the opportunity rather than resentful over being exploited.
Your friend’s experience is typical, not exceptional. See my post #35. My daughter works for an international company with a lot of male Indian colleagues. She has to remind them constantly that she is an equal, not a subordinate. Fortunately, she has an uncommon skillset that they badly need, so she comes out ahead if HR has to get involved.
You can fix their wagon, by opening up 7-11 franchises everywhere! Watch out, Ahpoo!
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