“The H-1B program is exacerbating the very shortages it was intended to address,” says an article by a member of the New York Times editorial committee.
Farah Stockman wrote:
Elon Musk and other tech moguls surrounding Donald Trump say Silicon Valley needs more H-1B visas to attract foreign workers because there aren’t enough Americans studying science and technology… There is some truth in that. But what they don’t tell you is that for more than a decade, Americans working in the tech industry have been systematically laid off and replaced by cheaper H-1B visa holders.
“When Americans realize they can’t make a living as software engineers, they leave the industry (so) the H-1B program worsens the shortages it was supposed to address,” Stockman concluded.
On January 3, an American manager from Silicon Valley describes orchestrated exclusion of fellow Americans at every level of his Fortune 500 company:
When I go to work in Silicon Valley, it’s rare that I see Americans. Literally everyone is Indian, with a little Chinese. Just recently, I was at a meeting of all the directors and senior leaders of my product, and I was the only one (out of about 25) who was not an Indian male. Randomly choosing a Senior Director of Engineering from our company directory, who is Indian, they have 36 employees based in the United States. Among them, 2 are American, 2 are Chinese and the rest are Indian. All his bosses up to the CEO are Indian. This is not an exception. This is a typical manager and I could pick virtually any manager in our engineering organization and see the same thing.
The investor-driven, nepotism-fueled nationwide displacement of American professionals by Indian and Chinese graduates is most advanced in the American information technology industry, particularly in start-ups of Silicon Valley.
But the same process is underway in federal science programs, where university researchers — many of them Americans — hire foreign graduate students as lab researchers through the J-1 visa program. Often, these recruits are Chinese graduate students because the academics are Chinese – and the result is that many potential American scientists lose a vital career gateway.
The result is diminished technological innovation, more institutionalized racial and national discrimination, a weakened national defense, and growing anger among the American middle class, among both Republicans and Democrats. A December poll showed 60 percent opposition — and just 26 percent support — to the influx of white-collar migrants.
Each year, the federal government allows employers to hire about 800,000 low-skilled, middle-skilled, and elite foreign white-collar workers, regardless of how many Americans want those jobs or are more qualified in those jobs.
These contract workers are not immigrants, although many begin working long hours for low wages in the hopes that their employers will nominate them for green cards.
This massive influx created a resident population of at least 1.5 million low-wage foreign entrepreneurs in a very wide variety of white-collar jobs. Contract workers fill many of the U.S. career startup, tech, and management jobs needed by U.S. professionals and college graduates.
Many migrants are imported to cut costs – and increase executive stock bonuses – at investor-owned Fortune 500 companies. Additionally, many senior managers welcome Indian workers, who are often incompetent, because they have no rights and cannot argue against managers – as American professionals were once expected to do.
Many migrants are hired through ethnic networks that allow foreign graduates to buy jobs from Americans in exchange for bribes paid to multiple levels of co-ethnic managers and recruiters. Some of the white-collar migrants are experts, but most are mid-skilled or inexperienced graduates from low-quality Indian universities. Top U.S. managers generally ignore the nepotism that excludes qualified Americans, in part because they delegate oversight of their Indian workforce to Indian managers.
THE Waters of Babylon The account describes the process:
Indians favor theirs. As a recruiting manager, I have repeatedly received CVs from Indian colleagues or friends, always, in 10 years, ALWAYS for other Indians. When I tried to find a diverse candidate pool for a recent requisition and was about to hire a diverse (i.e. non-Indian) candidate, my Indian manager pulled the plug on me. budget. Meanwhile, another Indian leader in my organization had an (open job) at the same grade level and immediately closed it by hiring an Indian buddy. As is always the case, the buddy had no expertise in the product or technology area. They will hire Indians with no expertise and train them, but never Americans.
U.S. banks tend to hire high-IQ Chinese migrants, but Silicon Valley investors often hire young Indian migrants to accelerate the growth of start-ups. These young migrants are paid with pending offers of green cards and citizenship, allowing investors to avoid paying American experts with stock in their new companies.
But according to Elon Musk ally Vivek Ramaswamy, “American culture has worshiped mediocrity over excellence for far too long (at least since the 90s and probably longer). … “Normal” is not enough in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend to do it, China will kick our ass.”
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