From 2013, Mother Jones, of all sources:
A few years ago, the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer informed hundreds of tech workers at its Connecticut R&D facilities that they’d soon be laid off. Before getting their final paychecks, however, they’d need to train their replacements: guest workers from India who’d come to the United States on H-1B visas. “It’s a very, very stressful work environment,” one soon-to-be-axed worker told Connecticut’s The Day newspaper. “I haven’t been able to sleep in weeks.”
Established in 1990, the federal H-1B visa program allows employers to import up to 65,000 foreign workers each year to fill jobs that require “highly specialized knowledge.” The Senate’s bipartisan Immigration Innovation Act of 2013, or “I-Squared Act,” would increase that cap to as many as 300,000 foreign workers. “The smartest, hardest-working, most talented people on this planet, we should want them to come here,” Sen. Marco Rubio, (R-Fla.) said upon introducing the bill last month. “I, for one, have no fear that this country is going to be overrun by Ph.D.s.”
(The gas lighting never stops. "highly specialized knowledge"? H1Bs are suppose to have the equivalent of four years of study- which, hey Marco Rubio, doesn't make them "smartest.")
"But in reality, most of today’s H-1B workers don’t stick around to become the next Albert Einstein or Sergey Brin…… . “The H-1B worker learns the job and then rotates back to the home country and takes the work with him,” explains Ron Hira, an immigration expert who teaches at the Rochester Institute of Technology. None other than India’s former commerce secretary once dubbed the H-1B the “outsourcing visa.”
(Wait, what? They LEARN the job here, then take that back? Do they learn and then continue the now outsourced job in India?)
"A 2007 study by the Urban Institute concluded that America was producing plenty of students with majors in science, technology, engineering, and math (the “STEM” professions)—many more than necessary to fill entry-level jobs. Yet Matloff sees this changing as H-1B workers cause Americans to major in more-lucrative fields such as law and business.“In terms of the number of people with graduate degrees in STEM,” he says, “H-1B is the problem, not the solution.”
"As it stands, though, there are plenty of stories like the one Jennifer Wedel told to President Barack Obama last year (see video below). “My husband has an engineering degree with over ten years of experience,” the Fort Worth resident told the president during a web chat hosted by the social network Google+. “Why does the government continue to issue and extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband with no job?”
(Flood the country with illegals for cheap labor, flood the country with H1B's to take better jobs away from Americans. Discourage studying in STEM fields and end American innovation and technology leadership. The agenda goes on)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/silicon-valley-h1b-visas-hurt-tech-workers/