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Posted on 05/22/2026 1:44:25 PM PDT by CFW
Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer who can’t find a job, considers herself a victim of an H-1B visa program run amok.
Her story, a U.S. native replaced by a foreign-born employee who is willing to work at a significantly lower wage, has become commonplace, particularly in the tech industry. Adding insult to injury, she says, her CEO, who hails from India, told her to train the man he selected to replace her before laying her off.
Despite stints at Google and Cisco and two years of job hunting, Mary can no longer compete in a job market saturated with foreign-born H-1B visa holders. “I had experience. I should have walked right into these corporate jobs, but I didn't. Why? Because Silicon Valley is flooded with people who work for two-thirds of the price, or even half price,” said Mary, who asked to be identified only by her first name.
U.S. tech workers like Mary are at the center of a battle brewing in Washington, D.C., over reforming the troubled H-1B visa program, which is designed to fill highly skilled positions when qualified American workers can’t be found. The controversy pits tough-on-immigration Republicans and some Democrats against the most formidable of opponents – Big Tech, the primary beneficiary of a program considered by critics to be little more than a pipeline of cheap labor.
[...] U.S. tech firms have filled their ranks and C-suites with employees born abroad. Intel is no longer the company of its founders, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, but of Malaysian-born Lip-Bu Tan, its CEO since March 2025. Microsoft is led by Satya Nadella; Alphabet Inc. by Sundar Pichai; Adobe by Shantanu Narayen; IBM by Arvind Krishna; YouTube by Neal Mohan; and T-Mobile US by Srinivas Gopalan – all of whom were born in India.
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“All told, a remarkable two-thirds of the Valley’s nearly 400,000 tech jobs are now held by those born abroad, according to a 2025 report from the think tank Joint Venture Silicon Valley. Today, more tech workers were born in India (23%) and China (18%) combined than in the U.S. (34%).”
And Trump is doing nothing about it.
I keep hoping and expecting Trump to put a stop to this.
That's where you hopefully have a witness, walk out the door, and make a very public lawsuit.
He slapped a $100,000 H1b visa fee on for profit companies.
It’s a worthless bait and switch which has been thoroughly debunked here many times. Does nothing to even slow down the relentless importation of Indian trash.
“Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer....Despite stints at Google and Cisco and two years of job hunting, Mary can no longer compete in a job market saturated with foreign-born H-1B visa holders.”
Is there some sort of shortage of marketers?
I don’t think the H-1B program should be used to fill domestic/English-language marketing positions.
H1b visa applications are down sharply in the last year. Here are the actual numbers:
The H1B visas should go to the companies which offer the highest wages, not those that win the H1B lottery (which just incentives companies to flood the system with applications).
My suggested H-1B system:
1. replace the existing system with a salary-based, monthly in 2025 and weekly thereafter, auction system
2. start with 330 openings per bid period day [and to make the system employer demand responsive]:
a. increase openings by 10 per day, up to 500 openings per day, if the winning bid average goes higher
b. decrease openings by 10 per day, down to 200 openings per day, if the winning bid average goes lower
3. get rid of the bogus can’t find an American nonsense
4. limit H-1Bs to 10% of the number of full-time, directly employed, PPACA-regulated health care cost coverage plan covered employees of the employer having a college degree
5. must work on employer’s premises on employer’s project
6. may not ever serve as a chain migration anchor [at most children/spouse]
7. fees
a. $2,000 per bid fee [to deter bogus/duplicate bids & prevent auction system denial of service], plus
b. a winner fee of 10% of the bid salary, or $8,000, whichever is higher [to compensate for reduced domestic search costs],
c. an annual inverse salary fee of 10% of the salary amount less than $200,000 plus 20% of the salary amount less than $120,000, plus
d. a payroll health coverage cost savings fee of $6 per week per year of age under age 65 [so highly experienced Americans not replaced by cheap, healthy young foreigners]
8. The Secretary of Labor shall compile computer software development language lists each December and May [college course completion months]
and shall only list languages it found to have been in existence for at least one year
9. H-1B persons can’t start work coding in a software development project in any Secretary of Labor-listed language
10. H-1B persons can’t do managerial work in their first two years in the program
The person must have at least a four-year degree in a statutorily specified subject from a Secretary of Education list of selected, respected educational institutions.
The minimum salary amount should be 120% of the most recent DoL salary survey average for the degree and years of experience using a least vertical offset squares minimized curve. If the degree is foreign, the closest common domestic degree shall be the standard to which the 120% is applied.
The H-1Bs should be bid out and awarded based on the salary premium in dollars to the minimum.
The bidder must have paid FICA in excess of $50,000 for the penultimate year per winner (to block out scammers). The Secretary of Labor may waive this requirement for up to 1,000 people per year. The bidder must have already won at auction. Auction fees would not be refunded if the waiver is not granted. The waivers will permit startups to import talent.
There would be no requirement beyond common sense to seek domestic talent (as the idea that no domestic person can be found to do a lawful high-tech job is ridiculous). The winner fee of at least $8,000 will encourage paying for a search for domestic talent.
A subsequent employer of a person would have to have a subsequent winning bid for the person.
Allowing an imported person to find a better employer would discourage employer abuse of imported employees.
The previous employer would have a qualified (subject to then current law) right to import an eligible replacement person at the bid salary or higher if the person left within one year of auction close.
After six years of salary payment at the person’s initial winning bid level or higher, the H-1B person might then be awarded permanent residence if the law in effect at the time allows for it.
[If the salary is $80,000, the annual inverse salary fee would be $20,000 ($12,000 plus $8,000).]
[The software body shops would need to set up partnerships with American colleges to meet most of their staffing needs.]
There is this below in the article, but nothing will be done for the next six months. Not with the Senate automatically voting “No” on anything Trump supports. Our only hope is to keep the House and Senate and have America-first replacements that will ram through Trump and conservatives’s agenda.
“While restrictions to the program, including last year’s $100,000 fee, have yet to meaningfully slow its growth, some Republicans have called to abolish it. In February, Florida representative Greg Steube introduced the EXILE Act, which would end the H-1B visa program entirely.
A proposed reform that might gain more bipartisan support targets the ineffective prevailing wage requirement that allows firms to underpay foreign workers. One idea floated by Republicans would create a minimum salary requirement for H-1B workers that’s much higher than the current pay scale, thus removing the financial incentive to replace U.S.-born workers. “
> make a very public lawsuit <
Unless the company breached a contract, there is (unfortunately) no basis for a lawsuit.
Congress should step in. But I’m sure they won’t. The question is why not? Are they all bought off by big business?
Not at the voting booth, but with their money, every time they chose lower prices over American labor.
US tech firms fill their executive suites with individuals—most of whom are India-born, coming here w/ H-1B visas. Intel is no longer the company of American founders, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore,
<><>Intel hired Malaysian-born Lip-Bu Tan, its CEO since March 2025.
<><>Microsoft is led by Satya Nadella;
<><>Alphabet Inc. by Sundar Pichai;
<><>Adobe by Shantanu Narayen;
<><>IBM by Arvind Krishna;
<><>YouTube by Neal Mohan;
<><>T-Mobile US by Srinivas Gopalan
“ Are they all bought off by big business?”
At least almost all
The number should be zero.
Patriots, Call Congress
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Call the White House
Comments: 202-456-1111
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Send a letter to the White House
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Message: A remarkable two-thirds of Silicon Valley’s nearly 400,000 tech jobs are now held by those born abroad, according to a 2025 report from the think tank “Joint Venture Silicon Valley.” Today, more tech workers were born in India (23%) and China (18%) combined than in the U.S. (34%).”
Now is the time to reform the troubled H-1B visa program, which was originally designed to fill highly skilled positions when qualified American workers can’t be found. Today’s controversy favors Big Tech. The latter are the primary beneficiary of a program considered by critics to be little more than a pipeline of cheap labor.
Have ICE agents apply for 2nd jobs there.
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