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This conflating the H1B with the O-1 has got to stop:
"The H-1B program applies to employers seeking to hire nonimmigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations of distinguished merit and ability."
The O-1 is for exceptional ability, not H1B:
An O-1 visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows individuals with extraordinary ability or achievement in specific fields to work temporarily in the United States.
I doubt many of the HB1's are high level creatives. There's coding then there's creating, input, and development.
The H1B visa, in reality, just keeps Americans from achievements. Companies would rather pay for mediocrity than for merit.
Merit is what will propel America to the top. America First is not about getting to Mars first or any of that. It's about putting US citizens first.
>if Making America Great Again doesn’t benefit working Americans, then what exactly is the point.
Exactly
Hearings held, proof given, there is no STEM shortage:
In 2015 and 2016, the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on problems with the H-1B visa. On March 17, 2015, Chairman Chuck Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on "Immigration Reforms Needed to Protect Skilled American Workers".[165][166][167] On February 25, 2016, Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Jeff Sessions held a hearing on "The Impact of "High-Skilled" Immigration on U.S. Workers.[168][169] These hearings' witnesses included AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Howard University Associate Professor Ron Hira, American Immigration Council Benjamin Johnson, Washington Alliance of Technology Workers Attorney John Miano, former Disney IT Engineer Leo Perrero, Colgate University Associate Professor of Economics Chad Sparber, and Rutgers University Professor Hal Salzman.
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the committee commented on the H-1B visa during the March 17th hearing:
The program was intended to serve employers who could not find the skilled workers they needed in the United States. Most people believe that employers are supposed to recruit Americans before they petition for an H-1B worker. Yet, under the law, most employers are not required to prove to the Department of Labor that they tried to find an American to fill the job first. And, if there is an equally or even better qualified U.S. worker available, the company does not have to offer him or her the job. Over the years the program has become a government-assisted way for employers to bring in cheaper foreign labor, and now it appears these foreign workers take over – rather than complement – the U.S. workforce.[170]
The H-1B visa became an issue in the 2016 United States presidential election. According to Computerworld, candidate Donald Trump took a stance to "pause" and re-write the H-1B system.[171] Additionally, he invited guest speakers to raise awareness of the hundreds of IT workers displaced by H-1B guest workers during his rallies. Candidate Donald Trump stated his policy position and solution on H-1Bs in his campaign website on immigration policy:
"Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs.
We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program.
Requirement to hire American workers first.
Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS."[172]
No labor shortage
Academic researchers have found no labor shortage in STEM, undercutting the primary reason for the H-1B visa's existence.
In 2022, Howard University public policy professor Ron Hira found there was no shortage in STEM due to stagnant wages in IT and a seven percent decline in real wages for engineers.[190]
Studies from Rutgers University professor Hal Salzman, and co-authors B. Lindsay Lowell and Daniel Kuehn, have concluded that the U.S. has been employing only 30% to 50% of its newly degreed able and willing STEM workers to work in STEM fields.[192][193]
A 2012 IEEE announcement of a conference on STEM education funding and job markets stated "only about half of those with under-graduate STEM degrees actually work in the STEM-related fields after college, and after 10 years, only some 8% still do."[194]
(Is this because the are passed over for H1B's?)
Rutgers University Public Policy Professor Hal Salzman points to simultaneous industry layoffs, when industry claims labor shortage. In his Senate Judiciary testimony, he states that between 2006 and 2016, the IT industry (the predominant user of the H-1B visa) laid off on average 97,000 workers per year, more than the number of 74,000 H-1B workers brought for the IT industry.[195]
Critics of the program take issue with American and outsourcing companies using H-1B visa workers to body shop and offshore work abroad.[227][228] Researchers have found that two thirds of IT jobs are offshorable. The remaining third remains onshore in order to be the conduit between American clients and offshore work teams.[229]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa
Every article and quote I see, except from people posting about it, equates the H1B Visa with the O-1 Visa. This is probably intentional and needs to be called out. The only Visa that requires exceptional is the O-1. It's dishonest to equate the H1B with O-1. Even if Musk talks about the .01% he won't use the O-1 Visa term, he always calls it H1B.
Make America Great Again was supported by Americans who want to WORK again, as opposed to the left. What part of that did some of these yayhoos not understand?
In this case, congress needs to act. (Yeah, right)
There is no law requiring hiring US citizens. They should have to do extensive proof that they tried to including qualifications that the citizen met and were ignored. How many H1B's are in the O-1 Visa category?
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Some probably already have. Now they will know they were snubbed for someone probably not as qualified.