>>22939999 (PB)
This is the lie that began the decline of hiring American tech:
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."
If business is only concerned about cheap labor, it will cheap itself out of existence.
End H-1B and send back those already here. End the, mostly Indian, companies in this country who undermine American workers.
If securing our country means becoming self-sufficient again, that also means tech. We have them, they've just been pushed aside. Forgive any lapses in employment because jobs went to foreigners.
And security? How much information on Americans is shipped (data) overseas for processing? How is that not a security interest?