This abused program needs to die. Killing it is the only fix.
Now, explain to me how there is a shortage of qualified, American workers for all these positions out there......
These companies are using H1B's for cost reduction -- period. Don't believe the lie.
H1B is very easy to fix. That it hasn’t been done indicates that certain big political contributors like the system the way it is.
There is one really simple solution that would fix the problem. Simply require that a position being filled with an H-1B visa worker be paid the median salary for that job, plus 10%.
I still maintain that it is an outright lie that H-1Bs are getting lower pay. I’m in IT and I just don’t see it. They are living on the same wages Americans get, buying property, vacationing, etc.
What I see in these people is degrees that don’t equate to US tech degrees and a lack of ingenuity with a mindset of “We do whatever the boss says” attitude. They won’t confront management on techniques or ideas and therefore these companies become stale and unproductive while Americans get their walking papers.
These visa programs are unAmerican and so are the big IT companies.
The H1B program is a scam. Abolishing it is the only solution. There is absolutely no shortage of American born workers to fill these positions. Companies just use the program to depress wages and have virtual slaves as employees. The entire premise that you need a foreigner to write code or administer hardware because there isn’t enough domestic talent is complete garbage.
No.
Just end it.
Allowing any type of immigration — legal or illegal — with the “percent not in the workforce” and “not working” rates is not only national suicide, it is cultural suicide as well.
We are letting in hordes who are only here to parasite off the US dollar and our standard of living.
The next H1b that you meet if they are planning on becoming a citizen, ask them if we got into a war would they send their children to fight to defend America.
You will be amazed at how casually they say, “Of course not. We’ll go back home.”
You see, it is the responsibility of long-standing Americans to send our sons to fight and die for the “land of opportunity”...so that THEY can take advantage of that opportunity without having to risk anything.
Vote Trump.
Problem, Solution.
Ummm... How about just getting rid of this America-last program once and for all? It’s time to take care of our own first and foremost.
Go into ANY IT shop and you'll find that it is 90% Indian H1Bs. Throw them out and hire a few AMERICANS!
America is stuck on stupid, the H1-B visa program is a perfect example. Let’s see, getting a STEM degree is hard, with the incentive that at the end of the road one might get a decent paying job. Then we discover this wonderful loophole to import indentured servants for multinational corps called the H1-B visa program and presto the STEM graduate is working at Starbucks. Other people observe the outcome of getting thrown under the bus and decide not to get STEM degrees since they can’t compete with the indentured H1-B visa guys who do what they are told or get shipped home. Suddenly, no one in America wants to get a STEM degree and we become a technological barren country.
This is a minor side effect of economic strip mining in the short term, but a huge problem in the long term for a nation. We always claim that profit and investors drive this process, but if a nation tells corporations to toe the line or exit our market, the corporations toe the line. At what point does repairing decades of dismantling our economy and future work force begin to be more important than a few percentage points of profit?
The American worker gets the crumbs.
Here's my solution:
a) jail the executives responsible for H1B visa fraud;
b) deport the H1B visa holders;
c) make the US firms spend the funds they would have spent training H1B visa holders on their American employees.
Problem solved.
H1B bump for later......
I use to think h1-b visas were a bad idea. But after what we are seeing on colleges who would want to hire the sniveling cry bullies?