Posted on 01/07/2025 11:32:20 AM PST by wildcard_redneck
A visa programme intended to attract top talent to the United States has become a lightning rod for controversy and an unexpected battleground in America's culture wars, with racial tensions against Indians at its core. The H1B work visa debate has drawn in figures like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Bernie Sanders, capturing the attention of over 200 million people online and affecting 1.7 billion people across the US and India.
The controversy ignited when Sriram Krishnan's nomination as Trump's senior White House policy advisor on AI sparked outrage among the far-Right Republican faction. An old tweet about removing “country caps” and snippets from a podcast I did with Krishnan were misinterpreted as advocating for unlimited Indian immigration, while the elevation of Indian-Americans like Vivek Ramaswamy and Kash Patel to key government positions led some to question Trump's allegiance to the white Right.
The H1B programme, restructured in 1990, allows employers to sponsor foreign workers for “specialty occupations” through an annual lottery system allocating 85,000 spots (65,000 general + 20,000 for advanced degrees). The process costs employers $12,000-15,000 per application, with about 14-17 percent success rate given the 470,000 applications in 2024. The visa is valid for three years, extensible to six years, during which most pursue green cards through EB-2 or EB-3 categories. Indians dominate the programme, receiving about 60 percent of new H1Bs and 80 percent of renewals. Due to the country cap limiting green cards to 7 percent per nation, over 1 million Indians and their families are stuck in a 130-150 year backlog, forcing them to continuously extend their H1Bs. The tech industry absorbs roughly 70 percent of H1B workers, with 50-70 percent of Silicon Valley being foreign-born.
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I would definitely call that the intentional displacement of the American workforce and the colonization of America. There is no way that Americans, who invented modern computing and software from nothing, are not more than capable of moving it forward without losing their own country to India and China.
When I was a consultant, there were tons of Indians. The bulk of a lot of projects were done over in India in big large shops of 50 people in one room just coding away. Very specialized and robotic.
All those cheap wages forced the American salaries down the toilet.
“When I was a consultant, there were tons of Indians”
Consulting companies like workers who are willing to relocate to a new city when the next project starts.
I have seen whole floors of office buildings entirely composed of cube farms infested with hundreds of Indians. We are being colonized and dispossessed in our own country by hostile foreign nations from cultures entirely foreign to the West.
When in management, they hire their own.
LOL! Its not “racial tensions against Indians”. Indian is not the problem. Cheap is the problem.
Make it more expensive to hire a foreigner than an American by imposing a fee for each visa, and the problem would be entirely solved.
Yes they do. They are like X pads everywhere but with added Hindu racism on top of it. They are kiss up p^ss down Hindu supremacists.
The first real executive at Intel who came from India was Vinod Dham who even today claims he was the father of the Pentium.
In reality he was a technical marketing manager.
He was ALSO the one who tried to cover up the Pentium floating point flaw.
His stock options were based on how many of the first Pentiums we would sell so he fabricated the results and then told executive staff it only showed up once in 3M years.
The KEY problem is when it DID show up, it didn’t set the exception flag and just gave you the wrong answer. Impossible to write code to address the issue.
This was withheld from validation and executive staff.
Vinod Dham was fired when this all came out and he then jumped ship to Cyrix again claiming he was the father of the Pentium.
He managed to mess up Cyrix by grabbing IP from both Intel and AMD.
About 10 years ago I heard he was involved in some real estate scam in Florida.
My first manager at Intel was from India and was 1.5 years late for my first review. He also thought it was beneath him to schedule meetings with subordinates.
He was frog walked out the door by security and HR gave me 1.5 years of back pay and profound apologies.
In my nearly 40 years working in semiconductor design, I have met 2 Indian engineers worth their salt. The rest are hacks who’s primary task is resume polishing.
Hubby recently retired from Silicon Valley. We have a lot of friends who are Indian-born and most are very Americanized. But the dirty little secret of Indian visas is that it is largely controlled by the Brahmin caste members here in the US. Brahmins come over here, get influence in hiring decisions and make sure only other Brahmins get the visas. Discrimination among and against the castes is alive and well.
The H1B visa program is nothing but the ethnic replacement of American citizens.
the infestation of China & India workers is a national security risk
One more thing: Nonimmigrant means no green card. They go home when their work is over.
Why it is critical to end birthright citizenship if H1B is opened up.
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