Education is another area where the perceived “need” for high tech work visas actually reflects the underlying failure of Democrat-dominated teachers’ unions and school administrations.
Take a look at per capita spending in public school systems, then compare it to how much is comparably spent in, say, India, and it makes fair the question of how and why so many can outperform U.S. students, many of whom graduate unable to read at the fourth-grade level, and are effectively unemployable. Ditto for those who aren’t qualified to use DEI degrees in anything the market is willing to pay for.
Why aren’t establishment education policies and curricula geared toward producing what the domestic market demands, to where the need to hire a foreign national over a qualified citizen candidate is one of special circumstances involving individual exceptionalism? Is flooding states with H-1Bs to enrich tech billionaires really the best way for the interests of We the People to be advanced?
Look at the Democrat-dominated teachers’ unions and tell me there’s not a political opportunity to capitalize with voters justifiably objecting to economic displacement by pointing out academia establishment failures due to willful educational malpractice.
And it’s no surprise these Marxist sell-outs want a “pathway to citizenship” for illegals, too.
You are absolutely right about so many things, just not this one.
The tech giants are laying off americal IT professionals while bringing in roughly the same amount of H1B replacements.
There is no problem with local IQ. There are many unemployed american IT professionals unable to find jobs. That is one of the main reasons why indians are so hated.
I worked for Microsoft and several other big companies, and Iam seeing these trends firsthand.
I understand discrimination such as you have experienced is a real problem but I don’t believe that is the total problem and there is also recognized validity to my concerns. And yes, I also understand that there’s no shortage of self-serving propaganda and manipulation in those reports. (And don’t hate me for “scboos” — it’s been a long day and if it gets the search results I want I don’t worry about my clumsy fingers missing the right keys.)
Thankfully at my age I’m out of all that. The wife still gets recruiters calling her because she has all the old core mainframe skills (COBOL, JCL, JES2, ISPF) but she’s put in her time, we don’t need it, and it’s all better spent with family.