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Re: HR8443 End H–1B Visa Abuse Act of 2026
Are Americans Being Hijacked out of Technological Leadership via Education Fallacies and Myths?
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA426584.pdf
Thus it is said that the United States must import students, scientists, and engineers from abroad to fill universities and work in the private sector—though even this talent pool may dry up eventually as more foreign nationals find attractive opportunities elsewhere.
Yet alongside such arguments—sometimes in the very same publications in which they appear—one learns of layoffs of tens of thousands of scientists and engineers in the computer, telecommunications, and aerospace industries, of the deep frustration and even anger felt by newly minted PhDs unable to find stable employment in traditional science and engineering career paths, and of senior scientists and engineers who are advising undergraduates against pursuing careers in their own fields. Why the contradictory reports on professions routinely deemed critical to the success of the American economy? Is it possible that there really is no shortage in these fields?
The recent history of shortage forecasts begins in the mid-1980s, when the then-leadership of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a few top research universities began to predict "looming shortfalls" of scientists and engineers in the next two decades.
Their arguments were based upon quite simplistic demographic projections produced by a small policy office reporting to the NSF director—projections that earlier had been sharply criticized by the NSF's own science and engineering workforce experts.
Only a few years later, it became apparent that the trends actually pointed toward a growing surplus of scientists and engineers. In 1992, the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology's Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight conducted a formal investigation and hearing about the shortfall projections, leading to much embarrassment at
the NSF. In his opening remarks at the hearing, the subcommittee's chairman. Democrat Howard Wolpe of Michigan, declared that the "credibility of the [National Science] Foundation is seriously damaged when it is so careless about its own product." Sherwood Boehlert, the subcommittee's ranking Republican and now chair of the full House Science Committee, called the NSF director's shortfall predictions "the equivalent to shouting 'Fire' in a crowded theater." They were "based on very tenuous data and analysis. In short, a mistake was made," he said. "Let's figure out how to avoid similar mistakes, and then move on." (U.S. House of Representatives, 1993, pp. 1-10.)
Boehlert's advice was not heeded.
How many qualified students were denied admittance or financial help for "diversity" or giving preference to foreign students? We know the H1-B hiring is for cheap labor, not merit. But how many foreigners got higher education, were admitted to a PhD program, or received financial aid via the taxpayer in the name of diversity and a manufactured shortage of STEM students? Taking down America begins with denying our best and brightest over imports.
Was this intentional? Why does educating Americans in STEM have to be stopped?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leaked-messages-reveal-andreessens-fury-universities-declared-war-70-country
In a recent interview with billionaire venture capitalist and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, Andreessen raised concerns about access to elite education.
“If you’re the parents of a smart kid where I grew up [rural Wisconsin] and you think you’re going to get them into a top university in this country, you’re fooling yourself,” Andreessen said. “What level of untapped talent exists in this country that a combination of DEI and immigration have basically cut out of the loop for the last 50 years?”