H1b visas. Anyone else work in technology and see the issues with this program and outsourcing?

[Anonymous]

Child labor is your solution?

[Anonymous]

Top 5 US university H-1B filers over the past decade

1. University of Michigan
2. Johns Hopkins
3. Penn
4. Columbia
5. Emory

Median wages: $68-$77k

Tech median H-1B wage is $97.6k

Academia pays H-1B workers a deep discount for jobs that could easily be done by Americans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a mix bag. Half of H1B are brilliant and hard working and we are lucky to poach them while other half are just average, desperate and cheap. We need to make sure we are getting the top half.

We also need to make sure that by ending visas and asking high pay for locals, we aren't pushing jobs overseas. We need to keep jobs here and educate and train locals to handle them at sustainable salaries for both employers and employees. We need to keep embracing top talent from overseas.

As long as it is not at the expense of throwing our own home grown talent under the bus, having our own computer science grads working as baristas et cetera. Mediocre foreigners handling our cybersecurity. And so on. That's the current disgrace the tech sector has going on now...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top 5 US university H-1B filers over the past decade

1. University of Michigan
2. Johns Hopkins
3. Penn
4. Columbia
5. Emory

Median wages: $68-$77k

Tech median H-1B wage is $97.6k

Academia pays H-1B workers a deep discount for jobs that could easily be done by Americans.

Americans don’t want to do postdocs for $68k. MAGA are real Einsteins.

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly. Western kids are demoralized by the presence of harder working higher performing Asians.
If he got rid of the immigrants, Western civilization kids would work harder and demonstrate their genius.

At “woke” colleges to study the “science” that MAGA hates, the “math” that MAGA says is fake. Mmkay.

Oh bless your little heart

Meanwhile back in the real world, not the circle jerk you imagine, ….

From 2020-2025, the @universityofky has filed for over 800 H1B labor condition applications.

Instead of hiring qualified Kentuckians or Americans, it’s hiring foreigners.

UK receives over $619 million dollars in state and federal taxpayer funding annually.

If the university isn’t able to educate and train Americans for these positions, it should NOT be receiving any tax benefits or taxpayer funding.

Democrats are suing to KEEP this abuse intact .

They must really think workers are stupid

Simply shows that there are no qualified Kentuckians.

They why is university of Kentucky , dedicated to training skilled labor, getting 619,000,000 dollars from the federal government???

Seems if the university is unable to train people they should get nothing and be on their own

But in the circle jerk that is racist or fascist or some other negative accusation

Come back and tell us how many American students want to do a PhD and postdoc .

H-1B don't want to do PhD or postdoc either. They just want a visa and green card. Many continue to register in the work visa lotteries until they get an h-1b so they can leave academia. This is very common for F1s.

So why don’t you blame the system that creates the conditions for H1 visas?

You're just tired of the albatross hanging around your neck.

What does this even mean?

The proposals aren't really valid or meaningful; the Democrats just don't want the consequences for their actions.

The Republicans continue to gaslight you and you continue to fall for it.

We really do want less immigration overall.

Ironic then that Trump's wife and her entire family as all well as Usha Vance's family are immigrants.

Yeah, and so was Ghislaine Maxwell, H-1b none-the-less.

[Anonymous]

As Usual Many Bills by Republicans.

not a SINGLE Democrat will support.

USCIS announced on March 31 that the H-1B cap had filled again for fiscal year 2027 – the first selection cycle conducted under the $100,000 supplemental fee imposed last September. Selections came in only about 11 percent below the prior year, even as overseas applications collapsed. The fee shifted who pays for new H-1B workers; it did not meaningfully reduce how many enter the U.S. workforce. Employers simply pivoted to in-country pipelines – F-1 students changing status to H-1B, employer-change petitions, and cap-exempt categories – none of which the fee touches.

Vice President JD Vance recently told students that big tech companies exploit the H-1B program, that surplus immigration is keeping families from being able to afford homes, and that the only durable fix is legislation: “we need Congress to codify this stuff.” Vance specifically asked his audience to press Senate candidates on whether they would cosponsor legislation to eliminate the program. His underlying point – that executive action alone cannot make these reforms stick – is exactly right.

The labor-market data backs him up. Oracle and Amazon each laid off roughly 30,000 workers earlier this year while filing thousands of fresh H-1B petitions. Q1 2026 tech-sector layoffs ran 40 percent above the same quarter last year. Yet the H-1B cap continues to fill on schedule, because the cap itself is riddled with loopholes that the executive branch cannot close.

Two complementary bills now pending would deliver what executive action cannot.

In the House, Rep. Eli Crane's End H-1B Visa Abuse Act (H.R. 8443) pauses new H-1B issuance for three years, then permanently cuts the cap to 25,000 and imposes a real labor-market test on every petition.

In the Senate, Sen. Tom Cotton's Visa Cap Enforcement Act (S. 2941) closes the loopholes that let hundreds of thousands of additional foreign workers slip past the 65,000 statutory cap each year. Together, they address both the size of the program and the loopholes that inflate it well beyond what Congress originally authorized.

Send a message to your U.S. Representative urging him/her to support and pass H.R. 8443, the End H-1B Visa Abuse Act, and to your U.S. Senators urging them to support and pass S. 2941, the Visa Cap Enforcement Act.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As Usual Many Bills by Republicans.

not a SINGLE Democrat will support.

USCIS announced on March 31 that the H-1B cap had filled again for fiscal year 2027 – the first selection cycle conducted under the $100,000 supplemental fee imposed last September. Selections came in only about 11 percent below the prior year, even as overseas applications collapsed. The fee shifted who pays for new H-1B workers; it did not meaningfully reduce how many enter the U.S. workforce. Employers simply pivoted to in-country pipelines – F-1 students changing status to H-1B, employer-change petitions, and cap-exempt categories – none of which the fee touches.

Vice President JD Vance recently told students that big tech companies exploit the H-1B program, that surplus immigration is keeping families from being able to afford homes, and that the only durable fix is legislation: “we need Congress to codify this stuff.” Vance specifically asked his audience to press Senate candidates on whether they would cosponsor legislation to eliminate the program. His underlying point – that executive action alone cannot make these reforms stick – is exactly right.

The labor-market data backs him up. Oracle and Amazon each laid off roughly 30,000 workers earlier this year while filing thousands of fresh H-1B petitions. Q1 2026 tech-sector layoffs ran 40 percent above the same quarter last year. Yet the H-1B cap continues to fill on schedule, because the cap itself is riddled with loopholes that the executive branch cannot close.

Two complementary bills now pending would deliver what executive action cannot.

In the House, Rep. Eli Crane's End H-1B Visa Abuse Act (H.R. 8443) pauses new H-1B issuance for three years, then permanently cuts the cap to 25,000 and imposes a real labor-market test on every petition.

In the Senate, Sen. Tom Cotton's Visa Cap Enforcement Act (S. 2941) closes the loopholes that let hundreds of thousands of additional foreign workers slip past the 65,000 statutory cap each year. Together, they address both the size of the program and the loopholes that inflate it well beyond what Congress originally authorized.

Send a message to your U.S. Representative urging him/her to support and pass H.R. 8443, the End H-1B Visa Abuse Act, and to your U.S. Senators urging them to support and pass S. 2941, the Visa Cap Enforcement Act.

Our Children depend on our generation STOPPING the replacement of US workers with cheap foreign labor, all to make rich people richer on the backs on US workers.

[Anonymous]

It’s astonishing that anyone still believes mass immigration is a net positive for any native people. Ask the American Indian. Ask the Palestinian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s astonishing that anyone still believes mass immigration is a net positive for any native people. Ask the American Indian. Ask the Palestinian.

Astonishing you can say this with a straight face.

ask Trump - both wives who are immigrants, including one whose family came on a chain migration, and whose mother was also an immigrant

ask Vance - wife's family are immigrants

ask Rubio - family were immigrants

ask Miller - family were refugees

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s astonishing that anyone still believes mass immigration is a net positive for any native people. Ask the American Indian. Ask the Palestinian.

Astonishing you can say this with a straight face.

ask Trump - both wives who are immigrants, including one whose family came on a chain migration, and whose mother was also an immigrant

ask Vance - wife's family are immigrants

ask Rubio - family were immigrants

ask Miller - family were refugees

Trump hired foreigners at cheaper wages. How does that benefit people born here?

It doesn't. Don't be addicted to cheap labor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As Usual Many Bills by Republicans.

not a SINGLE Democrat will support.

USCIS announced on March 31 that the H-1B cap had filled again for fiscal year 2027 – the first selection cycle conducted under the $100,000 supplemental fee imposed last September. Selections came in only about 11 percent below the prior year, even as overseas applications collapsed. The fee shifted who pays for new H-1B workers; it did not meaningfully reduce how many enter the U.S. workforce. Employers simply pivoted to in-country pipelines – F-1 students changing status to H-1B, employer-change petitions, and cap-exempt categories – none of which the fee touches.

Vice President JD Vance recently told students that big tech companies exploit the H-1B program, that surplus immigration is keeping families from being able to afford homes, and that the only durable fix is legislation: “we need Congress to codify this stuff.” Vance specifically asked his audience to press Senate candidates on whether they would cosponsor legislation to eliminate the program. His underlying point – that executive action alone cannot make these reforms stick – is exactly right.

The labor-market data backs him up. Oracle and Amazon each laid off roughly 30,000 workers earlier this year while filing thousands of fresh H-1B petitions. Q1 2026 tech-sector layoffs ran 40 percent above the same quarter last year. Yet the H-1B cap continues to fill on schedule, because the cap itself is riddled with loopholes that the executive branch cannot close.

Two complementary bills now pending would deliver what executive action cannot.

In the House, Rep. Eli Crane's End H-1B Visa Abuse Act (H.R. 8443) pauses new H-1B issuance for three years, then permanently cuts the cap to 25,000 and imposes a real labor-market test on every petition.

In the Senate, Sen. Tom Cotton's Visa Cap Enforcement Act (S. 2941) closes the loopholes that let hundreds of thousands of additional foreign workers slip past the 65,000 statutory cap each year. Together, they address both the size of the program and the loopholes that inflate it well beyond what Congress originally authorized.

Send a message to your U.S. Representative urging him/her to support and pass H.R. 8443, the End H-1B Visa Abuse Act, and to your U.S. Senators urging them to support and pass S. 2941, the Visa Cap Enforcement Act.

Our Children depend on our generation STOPPING the replacement of US workers with cheap foreign labor, all to make rich people richer on the backs on US workers.

We are screwing over future generations of Americans just for the sake of some short term profits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:It’s astonishing that anyone still believes mass immigration is a net positive for any native people. Ask the American Indian. Ask the Palestinian.

Astonishing you can say this with a straight face.

ask Trump - both wives who are immigrants, including one whose family came on a chain migration, and whose mother was also an immigrant

ask Vance - wife's family are immigrants

ask Rubio - family were immigrants

ask Miller - family were refugees

Trump hired foreigners at cheaper wages. How does that benefit people born here?

It doesn't. Don't be addicted to cheap labor

It's not always cheaper labor.

In many (I would argue the majority), Americans are willing to take these jobs but they are not even considered at any price due to the ethnic nepotism practiced by Indian hiring managers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top 5 US university H-1B filers over the past decade

1. University of Michigan
2. Johns Hopkins
3. Penn
4. Columbia
5. Emory

Median wages: $68-$77k

Tech median H-1B wage is $97.6k

Academia pays H-1B workers a deep discount for jobs that could easily be done by Americans.

This is a good thing, there should be visas for top researchers. This doesn't depress wages, these are temporary positions regardless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I've worked in the tech industry for 20+ years, and I've seen H1s flood the industry, and more and more jobs offshored, so I know a bit about this whole situation.

But, your attitude really scares me. It reminds me of how Germans tolerated the evil that his Hitler because at least they had jobs. Just how much evil are you willing to accept for your job? People like you are willing to sell their souls to the devil for a job. If there was an apocalypse, people like you would be the ones to eat a baby because you were starving.

Trump and people like you have shown me that our civilization is just a veneer, that underneath this "great America", it's full of racist, selfish aholes who would support someone like Hitler if it meant that they could have a job and nice things.

In a few more years Americans are going to be stating the government got bought and paid for by the South Asian scam pipeline replacing American high tech workers with South Asians.

Don't you get it, or are you stupid? These are not good people. They don't give a rat's ass Americans are losing their livelihoods due to a SCAM pipeline extending from India to the U.S. government to Human Resources personnel. It's not even about the company's saving money. It's all about greasing palms and corruption.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s astonishing that anyone still believes mass immigration is a net positive for any native people. Ask the American Indian. Ask the Palestinian.

Astonishing you can say this with a straight face.

ask Trump - both wives who are immigrants, including one whose family came on a chain migration, and whose mother was also an immigrant

ask Vance - wife's family are immigrants

ask Rubio - family were immigrants

ask Miller - family were refugees

Trump hired foreigners at cheaper wages. How does that benefit people born here?

It doesn't. Don't be addicted to cheap labor

It's not always cheaper labor.

In many (I would argue the majority), Americans are willing to take these jobs but they are not even considered at any price due to the ethnic nepotism practiced by Indian hiring managers.

I mean, Trump hired H2 white eastern european foreign workers over local black floridians.