Readers at Washington post have changed attitudes towards H-1B

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am 100% behind getting rid of the H-1B program. It is a giveaway to tech companies and disincentivizes American kids from working hard (there is literally no hope in some career fields, it doesn't matter how good you are.) It is a scam, it's always been a scam, and now it's worse as H-1Bs are creating insular "we only hire our nationality" companies and departments.

This is the data that should change the immigration debate overnight.

Job openings just fell to 7.1M.

Unemployment hit a four-year high at 4.6%.
Hiring dropped to 3.2%, one of the weakest rates since the Great Recession.

That’s not a hot labor market.
That’s a cooling one.

So here’s the real question no one wants to touch.

If jobs are getting harder to land, why are we still pretending H-1B, OPT, and outsourcing/offshoring exist in a vacuum?

When demand slows, every pipeline matters.

Domestic. Foreign. Legal. Illegal.
All of it hits the same job market.

This isn’t anti-immigrant.
It’s pro-reality.

Will Congress act before it’s too late?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am 100% behind getting rid of the H-1B program. It is a giveaway to tech companies and disincentivizes American kids from working hard (there is literally no hope in some career fields, it doesn't matter how good you are.) It is a scam, it's always been a scam, and now it's worse as H-1Bs are creating insular "we only hire our nationality" companies and departments.

This is the data that should change the immigration debate overnight.

Job openings just fell to 7.1M.

Unemployment hit a four-year high at 4.6%.
Hiring dropped to 3.2%, one of the weakest rates since the Great Recession.

That’s not a hot labor market.
That’s a cooling one.

So here’s the real question no one wants to touch.

If jobs are getting harder to land, why are we still pretending H-1B, OPT, and outsourcing/offshoring exist in a vacuum?

When demand slows, every pipeline matters.

Domestic. Foreign. Legal. Illegal.
All of it hits the same job market.

This isn’t anti-immigrant.
It’s pro-reality.

Will Congress act before it’s too late?

Lies. Trump told us the economy is booming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am 100% behind getting rid of the H-1B program. It is a giveaway to tech companies and disincentivizes American kids from working hard (there is literally no hope in some career fields, it doesn't matter how good you are.) It is a scam, it's always been a scam, and now it's worse as H-1Bs are creating insular "we only hire our nationality" companies and departments.

These companies will just hire the talent to their overseas subsidiary offices. Nvidia India Pvt Ltd for example.

[Anonymous]

EXCLUSIVE: an insider at USAA provides footage of the company's recent Diwali event. It looks like a Tim and Eric skit.

Remember, while USAA throws parties for Indians, it ignores American holidays and its veteran employees are committing suicide from stress and layoffs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of American kids want to be doctors. There is no reason to import foreign ones. The reason there are so many Indian doctors compared to Americans has nothing to do with skill or intelligence - it's that it costs roughly $6000 to become a doctor an all of 6 years in India - whereas in the US it is 10+ years and $300,000.

Those doctors work in rural America. American Larla doesn’t want to do that. That’s why so many rural hospitals closed in 2025.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:EXCLUSIVE: an insider at USAA provides footage of the company's recent Diwali event. It looks like a Tim and Eric skit.

Remember, while USAA throws parties for Indians, it ignores American holidays and its veteran employees are committing suicide from stress and layoffs.

Did you write your Trump and elected MAGA when he drastically cut mental health services, including the crisis hotline, at the VA this past year?!

Also, a quick Google search confirms you are lying about celebrations for Christians at USAA. There was a massive Christmas party (see IG) and the days off all correspond with federal Christian holidays.

Please do better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:anyone read WAPO?

Today there is an article about H1B and how USCIS is slowing down applications. And reviewing them for fraud.

But look at the comments. There is an 180 degree change in attitude to H1B.

Hopefully more people will complain to Democrats and the 1990 Bush Immigration act can be reversed.

Especially since so many layoffs in tech. How can anyone say there is a skills shortage?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/19/india-h1b-visas-skilled-workers-trump/

Umm these are troll farms who are paid to sway the population. Probably same people who helped Trump winl.

Yes, skills shortage is a persistant problem in US. Having H1B workers expands the tax base of US. But, now I am guessing that the jobs will be sent off-shore. At the end of it all, US is competing with China. And China has the academic chops (and other chops) to win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of American kids want to be doctors. There is no reason to import foreign ones. The reason there are so many Indian doctors compared to Americans has nothing to do with skill or intelligence - it's that it costs roughly $6000 to become a doctor an all of 6 years in India - whereas in the US it is 10+ years and $300,000.

Those doctors work in rural America. American Larla doesn’t want to do that. That’s why so many rural hospitals closed in 2025.

Billionaires are buying all the farms in USA. So, do we need rural population? AI and robots will run the farms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of American kids want to be doctors. There is no reason to import foreign ones. The reason there are so many Indian doctors compared to Americans has nothing to do with skill or intelligence - it's that it costs roughly $6000 to become a doctor an all of 6 years in India - whereas in the US it is 10+ years and $300,000.

Those doctors work in rural America. American Larla doesn’t want to do that. That’s why so many rural hospitals closed in 2025.

Just look at this place, all the American Larla wants to wfh and make 200k/year. We have a team of 15 lovely, but entitled American new grads in DC who spent 2 whole years doing diddly squat. Our system is still not online.

Not that I want a team of H1 to onboard shitty data either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of American kids want to be doctors. There is no reason to import foreign ones. The reason there are so many Indian doctors compared to Americans has nothing to do with skill or intelligence - it's that it costs roughly $6000 to become a doctor an all of 6 years in India - whereas in the US it is 10+ years and $300,000.

Those doctors work in rural America. American Larla doesn’t want to do that. That’s why so many rural hospitals closed in 2025.

Billionaires are buying all the farms in USA. So, do we need rural population? AI and robots will run the farms.

+1. Rural hospitals are closing because no one lives there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:EXCLUSIVE: an insider at USAA provides footage of the company's recent Diwali event. It looks like a Tim and Eric skit.

Remember, while USAA throws parties for Indians, it ignores American holidays and its veteran employees are committing suicide from stress and layoffs.

I'm a USAA member.
Is there a way I can request how many of their employees are offshore or H1B?
How do I see that they exhausted finding employees with the same skill set in the US first (which is a requirement for H1B at least, right?)? Do they provide this information or have to disclose it somewhere to comply with visa laws?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:EXCLUSIVE: an insider at USAA provides footage of the company's recent Diwali event. It looks like a Tim and Eric skit.

Remember, while USAA throws parties for Indians, it ignores American holidays and its veteran employees are committing suicide from stress and layoffs.

Did you write your Trump and elected MAGA when he drastically cut mental health services, including the crisis hotline, at the VA this past year?!

Also, a quick Google search confirms you are lying about celebrations for Christians at USAA. There was a massive Christmas party (see IG) and the days off all correspond with federal Christian holidays.

Please do better.

We are never allowed to refer to anything as a Christmas party. This is true for most corporations in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am 100% behind getting rid of the H-1B program. It is a giveaway to tech companies and disincentivizes American kids from working hard (there is literally no hope in some career fields, it doesn't matter how good you are.) It is a scam, it's always been a scam, and now it's worse as H-1Bs are creating insular "we only hire our nationality" companies and departments.

This is the data that should change the immigration debate overnight.

Job openings just fell to 7.1M.

Unemployment hit a four-year high at 4.6%.
Hiring dropped to 3.2%, one of the weakest rates since the Great Recession.

That’s not a hot labor market.
That’s a cooling one.

So here’s the real question no one wants to touch.

If jobs are getting harder to land, why are we still pretending H-1B, OPT, and outsourcing/offshoring exist in a vacuum?

When demand slows, every pipeline matters.

Domestic. Foreign. Legal. Illegal.
All of it hits the same job market.

This isn’t anti-immigrant.
It’s pro-reality.

Will Congress act before it’s too late?

Lies. Trump told us the economy is booming.

you forgot the /s

None of the kids my family knows who have graduated recently have decent jobs related to their fields unless they are Indian.

[Anonymous]

Give me a break.

Don't know about healthcare, but in tech, the one and only reason employers even apply for H1Bs is because these employees are much cheaper. Salaries are lower, benefits are non-existent, and whatever profits are made through this scam, the employers get to keep it.
Given a choice between hiring a Joe Schmo for 150K and a Rajeev Gupta for 80K, with similar qualifications, guess who has a leg up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Give me a break.

Don't know about healthcare, but in tech, the one and only reason employers even apply for H1Bs is because these employees are much cheaper. Salaries are lower, benefits are non-existent, and whatever profits are made through this scam, the employers get to keep it.
Given a choice between hiring a Joe Schmo for 150K and a Rajeev Gupta for 80K, with similar qualifications, guess who has a leg up?

And I bet Gupta is easy to manage, works 80 hr/week. Joe probably will job hop next year and ask for counter offer, or they are on your back about promotions.