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

[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?

In healthcare it's because they're willing to work the night shift. Very few Americans are willing to upend their lives for an extra $2 an hour but an h1b will do it because the money is so much better than they'd make at home. So you end up with a segregated staff with all Americans on day shift and all h1bs at night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yeah, because if Joe doesn't do these things he finds out that new grad Mckenzie is already making more than he is. Joe doesn't have much choice.
Gupta is outearning all his friends and relations at home by leaps and bounds so he's happy with the 80k.

[Anonymous]

everyday I wake up, more good news.

see -> https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1310840.page

the pipeline is getting smaller and smaller. Hope for US students

[Anonymous]

The comments section at any news sites is filled with paid posters and nuts. Republicans love to hire PR firms with banks of people and bots flooding talking points to amplify their position. The other type of poster is the mentally ill MAGA who furiously posts from as many accounts possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The comments section at any news sites is filled with paid posters and nuts. Republicans love to hire PR firms with banks of people and bots flooding talking points to amplify their position. The other type of poster is the mentally ill MAGA who furiously posts from as many accounts possible.

most republicans are still in front of their cable TV. try harder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They also need to fix what is happening at our top universities.

My kid is at one of the top 12 engineering schools.

Easily 30-35% of the students in the program are foreign students, many from hostile adversarial countries.

We know of several incredibly talented kids from our local high school with the same stats as my kid, or better stars, who also applied to that school and were rejected.

Before anyone says well the foreign students are smarter and more hard working than the American kids, my kid coming out of northern Virginia public schools is holding their own with these foreign students, with a more difficult program than many of those kids due to a double major, and my kid was not the smartest or most prepared of the top students at their public high school. I am sure there are hundreds or perhaps close to a thousand kids in just the DC area public and private schools who are just as smart, prepared, hard working and capable of those foreign students, who should have been accepted into the top engineering programs in this country.

I am very supportive of putting a hard cap, maybe 10%, on the percentage of foreign students allowed into any security critical degree program such as sciences and engineering, at any university that receives a dime of federal aide, grants, pell grants or federal loans

We have American kids prepared, brilliant and innovative enough to fill our engineering schools.

This needs to be fixed, not just the work visas.

everything in this country is about profit, ceo's bonuses, shareholders.... healthcare, education, politics.

are you aware that foreign students are the primary income for universities? unis don't get much profit off your in-state tuition. capitalism, baby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

In healthcare it's because they're willing to work the night shift. Very few Americans are willing to upend their lives for an extra $2 an hour but an h1b will do it because the money is so much better than they'd make at home. So you end up with a segregated staff with all Americans on day shift and all h1bs at night.

If we didn't let companies abuse the H1B system they'd pay more than $2 extra for the night shift.

The intent of H1B is to be able to import people with skills that cannot be filled by an American, not to import someone because you don't want to pay the American who can do it.

[Anonymous]

American college graduates are struggling to find work in the fields they trained for. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, recent graduate unemployment stands at 5.3% – higher than the overall workforce – with underemployment reaching 41.8%, the highest level since 2020. The Cleveland Fed reports that the unemployment gap between college and high school graduates is at its lowest since the late 1970s, concluding that the bachelor's degree is "no longer delivering on its fundamental promise."

Meanwhile, fewer than half of American STEM graduates are finding jobs in STEM fields, yet 53% of workers in the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program are employed in STEM. The OPT program has grown over 400% in recent years, even as software development job postings have fallen 34% from pre-COVID levels. Computer science graduates face 6.1% unemployment, computer engineering graduates 7.5%, and physics graduates 7.8%.

Please send a message to your U.S. Representative urging him to support H.R. 2315, the Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act, to eliminate the OPT program and level the playing field for American college graduates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

In healthcare it's because they're willing to work the night shift. Very few Americans are willing to upend their lives for an extra $2 an hour but an h1b will do it because the money is so much better than they'd make at home. So you end up with a segregated staff with all Americans on day shift and all h1bs at night.

If we didn't let companies abuse the H1B system they'd pay more than $2 extra for the night shift.

The intent of H1B is to be able to import people with skills that cannot be filled by an American, not to import someone because you don't want to pay the American who can do it.

Texans come first.

I’m directing state agencies and universities to freeze new H-1B visa petitions. Texas taxpayers invest billions to train our workforce. Those jobs should go to Texans.

Texas is the strongest economic engine in America. We’re going to keep it that way.

[Anonymous]

American college graduates are struggling to find work in the fields they trained for. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, recent graduate unemployment stands at 5.3% – higher than the overall workforce – with underemployment reaching 41.8%, the highest level since 2020. The Cleveland Fed reports that the unemployment gap between college and high school graduates is at its lowest since the late 1970s, concluding that the bachelor's degree is "no longer delivering on its fundamental promise."

Meanwhile, fewer than half of American STEM graduates are finding jobs in STEM fields, yet 53% of workers in the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program are employed in STEM. The OPT program has grown over 400% in recent years, even as software development job postings have fallen 34% from pre-COVID levels. Computer science graduates face 6.1% unemployment, computer engineering graduates 7.5%, and physics graduates 7.8%.

Please send a message to your U.S. Representative urging him to support H.R. 2315, the Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act, to eliminate the OPT program and level the playing field for American college graduates.

[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.

Exactly. The most an India Medical Graduate pays is $36,000 in one of the private schools. America needs to do better. There are plenty of American kids who are qualified to become doctors, but are discouraged due to the cost and potential school debt. Those school loans become a rope around their necks for years, if not decades. Not worth it.

The barriers to entry into the medical profession in the US are two high. In most of the rest of the world medicine (and law) is an undergraduate degree.

Too high. I hope you are not a dr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

In healthcare it's because they're willing to work the night shift. Very few Americans are willing to upend their lives for an extra $2 an hour but an h1b will do it because the money is so much better than they'd make at home. So you end up with a segregated staff with all Americans on day shift and all h1bs at night.

If we didn't let companies abuse the H1B system they'd pay more than $2 extra for the night shift.

The intent of H1B is to be able to import people with skills that cannot be filled by an American, not to import someone because you don't want to pay the American who can do it.

Same thing with teachers in some areas.