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If you fire an American to hire an H1B, you are a traitor.
It has happened to WAY too many Americans. H1B needs to happen under the old rules where you had to prove you could not find a qualified American.

Now you can literally tell them you want to fire American workers and import foreigners, and they allow it.

It has happened to WAY too many Americans. H1B needs to happen under the old rules where you had to prove you could not find a qualified American.

The US has so many people, with so many different skills, that it's a lie that you "can't find an American". What it REALLY means is that you can't find an American willing to work for Third World pay.

But I'm willing to have SOME H1B visas issued -- at a price of $100K to the employer per year. We would then see how many we REALLY need.

H1B needs to happen under the old rules where you had to prove you could not find a qualified American.

I think there is a place for the H1B program, but that said, it should include what you say above, and further there should be a fee or a tariff attached.

You can bring someone in, but their wages under the program have a 20% tax, and you must pay them 20% above the median for the position.

It has happened to WAY too many Americans. H1B needs to happen under the old rules where you had to prove you could not find a qualified American.

That was one of the easiest rules that was worked around. Recruiters would interview three Americans and then say we couldn’t find an American to meet the specifications of the job. Therefore we need an H1B visa worker who has the qualifications. Or they would give a list of technologies and languages needed for the job and if that specific language or tech was not on the resume they would say “not qualified”. This was even when there was a more advanced tech that encompassed the lower or more basic tech. It was like you had to put down that you knew “spelling” even though you could write “sentences”. You think that is an oversimplified example, it is not. If it wasn’t on the resume it got tossed.

So if someone said they knew how to use SQL Developer and could write PL/SQL but never put down SQL by itself the resume got tossed. I know this because I went through this very issue with recruiters who were checking off lists and had no idea of the tech. Then you added in the computerized bots that read resumes and discarded resumes the same way.

So yeah, proving Americans were qualified was so easy to disqualify them without a second glance.

If you fire an American to hire an H1B, you are a traitor. It has happened to WAY too many Americans. H1B needs to happen under the old rules where you had to prove you could not find a qualified American.

Unemployment is now in the double digits. Any employer who claims that he needs to foreign workers because there are no available Americans to do the job is lying through his teeth.

That's not just true of H1B tech jobs, it's equally true of most other sectors of the economy.