When President Trump said he supported H1B visas he quashed the hopes of unemployed American techs.
We've been gas lighted by the National Science Foundation since the late 1980's with a criticized study that said the United States would be short of STEM graduates in the future.
Eric R. Weinstein, Phd wrote a paper I'll give links to below. He quoted Michael Teitlebaum, vice-chairman of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform and Officer of the Sloan Foundations concurred stating:
"There is no shortage, there is a surplus. Claims that there was a dearth [of scientists and engineers] began a decade ago, when Erich Bloch, then-Director of the National Science Foundation, claimed that unless action was taken, there would be a cumulative shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers over the next two decades. Congress poured in additional money. The National Science Foundation received tens of millions of dollars for science and engineering education. And in 1990, Congress nearly tripled the number of permanent visas for highly skilled immigrants."
(Personally, I wonder who got that education)
The effect was not to fill labor shortages but to save labor costs. As quoted from the paper:
"So when you hear an employer saying he needs immigrants to fill a "labor shortage," remember what you are hearing: a cry for a labor subsidy to allow the employer to avoid the normal functioning of the labor market."
That scam continues today. Included in that is the incorrectly applied "exceptional" and " highly skilled label to the H1B. Those definitions are for an already existing visa, the O-1. The H1B only requires the equivalent of a four year degree.
From a CBS news article:
"Data from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that the number of bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in computer science and in engineering conferred in the U.S. reached their highest levels in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years since 1970-71."
Besides US companies hiring H1B's, another entity appeared created by the claim of STEM shortages- the formation of recruiters. (They call themselves tech consultants, usually) Companies use them instead of their own internal sources to find and hire people. As Robert Sterling found out in a very informative readerapp (Link below):
"As it turns out, these are ALL Indian companies that import H-1B workers en masse…..these aren't American companies that needed international talent to fill critical roles. They're foreign companies that appear to have been founded to place overseas tech workers into US companies as contractors."
The recruiters literally place an embargo against American workers. And even if they get the token interview, there is likely now an HR DEI person next in line to quash that potential employee in favor of "equity." DEI believers are not going away from the nooks and crannies where it's hard to find and dig them out.
This will have a chilling effect on America's future technological base. We've had US citizens laid off in favor of cheaper foreign labor by either taking jobs overseas or bringing foreign workers here. New grads in STEM can't get those important entry level jobs because they've either gone to a H1B or someone overqualified who was laid off. So you have people with lots of money invested in an education who can't find a job. Much more of that and incoming students won't look to study in STEM areas, even if they'd prefer to, because they know they can't find a job when they graduate.
(But that was also part of the long term scheme- cripple America)
Eventually, America will be largely dependent on foreign tech. Somehow, this sounds like Plan B of replacement. They're just implementing it in a different way.
When employers lay off US workers then hire H1B, the question is never asked why they didn't try to see which of those US workers they could hire back? Isn't being a patriot putting America first- not just as a whole nation but as its individuals too?
www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/Weinstein-GUI_NSF_SG_Complete_INET.pdf
Robert Sterling - https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1873174358535110953#google_vignette
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/h-1b-visa-technology-industry-elon-musk-donald-trump/
(Has some caveats in that some make claims that H1B's will create more jobs, etc, without proof how that would work and who they would really hire. They seem to like to throw this out when confronted)