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

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Anonymous wrote:Is no one at all worried about the national security risk of having a bunch of foreign H1B's running all our tech? We all assume Indians and Chinese workers who are working at Microsoft, Google, Starlink and a bunch of other Defense companies are going to be loyal to America but we know that China regularly harasses people of Chinese descent for information on their work. We know that many Indians are more loyal to India than America - or would happily sell information to other countries. And with Trump in office, many H1Bs who would have been loyal are rethinking.

In a major world war, would we have enough Americans who know how to code and manage the tech infrastructure to compete against China and Russia? Would China and Russia already have kill switches embedded in our tech thanks to H1Bs?

Instagram has a lot of Chinese propaganda. It’s always about China is the best, cashless pay, cool gadgets tall building etc… very cringy if you ask me.

[Anonymous]

H1B is one of the reasons American schools have gone down hill so quickly. If the tech companies needed to hire Americans, they would make sure that Americans were educated better in tech or if hospitals needed to hire American doctors and lawyers, they would make sure there were enough spots at American medical schools to educate them. It's just cheaper and easier to hire from abroad because it costs much less to get degrees from India or China or Bangladesh. That's why American kids are like WTF, I'm not going to pay $120k to get a degree and then be undercut by some kid from Delhi who only paid $12k.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My Catholic college I graduated way way back in 1985 at time was a highly regarded commuter college so almost 100 percent of students went to high schools with 20 miles of campus. To be honest was around 90 percent white, 5 percent black and rest mixed. Nearly all Catholic.

I not long ago attended an event on campus to speak after not stepping food in campus since 1993.

The school is now 99 percent foreign. Most kids Barely spoke English. Highly doubt any are Catholic. They have dorms now.

School no longer is attended by kids who live near school or alumni. Like a lot of schools loaded up on full pay international to support poor U.S DEI students and athletes.

The middle class local student of 1980s wgoblive within 20 miles of campus not welcome or charged sky high full pay tuition ,

Which school?

St. Johns University on Queens NYC. Back in the day the CEO of Merril Lynch and seemed half of Wall Street either went to St. Johns or had a family member or friend who went there. Funny in 1996 I heard the CEO of Merril Lunch Dan Tully speaking as he was retiring and he joked in 1996 the only job a St. John's graduate is apparantly eligible for at Merril Lynch is CEO as the trading desks and investment bankers no longer recruit from St. Johns. Tully graduated SJU in 1952. I have no clue why SJU in the late 1980s/early 1990s decided to throw away 120 years of a good thing.

I also went to an event at Baruch in Manhattan and same thing. Back around 2007 I took a college class at a CUNY school as needed the Accounting credit to sit for CPA. There was maybe two US born students, including me in a class of 40. Was very odd. I was a lot older, but also odd I could not talk to anyone really. At any break or before or after class they had groups of people speaking foreign languages. And the different goups barely interacted. The teacher sometimes would ask questions and no one would answer and he point at me and joke hey can you answer I know you speak English. He also had a very heavy accent, so he could get away with it.

[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.

There's absolutely a shortage of doctors in the US. They need to import more, while at the same time increasing US output. In most cities in India, I can see a top specialist the same day or worst case, within the week. This includes the ones that are way more qualified than the typical ones I get to see here. Until we get to that level of availability we need to keep importing doctors.. a lot.

And the $6K cost you are talking about is at a very small number of government run medical colleges. It's cheaper for kids to go to Europe to get their medical degrees than to get one in Indian private colleges. Also, the equivalent of the Indian 6-year education is about 10 years in the US (integrated medical program+residency). The indian program gets you an MBBS. If you want an MD, it's 3 more years after that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My Catholic college I graduated way way back in 1985 at time was a highly regarded commuter college so almost 100 percent of students went to high schools with 20 miles of campus. To be honest was around 90 percent white, 5 percent black and rest mixed. Nearly all Catholic.

I not long ago attended an event on campus to speak after not stepping food in campus since 1993.

The school is now 99 percent foreign. Most kids Barely spoke English. Highly doubt any are Catholic. They have dorms now.

School no longer is attended by kids who live near school or alumni. Like a lot of schools loaded up on full pay international to support poor U.S DEI students and athletes.

The middle class local student of 1980s wgoblive within 20 miles of campus not welcome or charged sky high full pay tuition ,

Which school?

St. Johns University on Queens NYC. Back in the day the CEO of Merril Lynch and seemed half of Wall Street either went to St. Johns or had a family member or friend who went there. Funny in 1996 I heard the CEO of Merril Lunch Dan Tully speaking as he was retiring and he joked in 1996 the only job a St. John's graduate is apparantly eligible for at Merril Lynch is CEO as the trading desks and investment bankers no longer recruit from St. Johns. Tully graduated SJU in 1952. I have no clue why SJU in the late 1980s/early 1990s decided to throw away 120 years of a good thing.

I also went to an event at Baruch in Manhattan and same thing. Back around 2007 I took a college class at a CUNY school as needed the Accounting credit to sit for CPA. There was maybe two US born students, including me in a class of 40. Was very odd. I was a lot older, but also odd I could not talk to anyone really. At any break or before or after class they had groups of people speaking foreign languages. And the different goups barely interacted. The teacher sometimes would ask questions and no one would answer and he point at me and joke hey can you answer I know you speak English. He also had a very heavy accent, so he could get away with it.

As a Baruch graduate - that school has always been a magnet for first and 1.5 generation kids. That’s the combo of having an unbeatable tuition, solid business and accounting programs and being a commuter school. Those kids speaking foreign languages (I was one of them, but I graduated in ‘95) are mostly not foreign students paying $$$, they are permanent residents or US citizens reflecting the college bound population of NYC public schools.

[Anonymous]

anyone read WAPO?

Not anymore.

It’s been compromised.

[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.

My sister spend $0 to become a doctor in my country in West Africa. She only practiced medicine for 2 years in Africa before moving here to the US. A few years later she is living the life as an extremely well compensated doctor.

The average American is being taken for a ride. It's crazy how people go to school for free in their country, move here and after a few years (immediately for some) land the same jobs American kids spent $100k training for. Crazy.

[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.

I have no doubt your kid is qualified. I came here as an international student from France. I went to a top 4 Physics program. I was shocked at the preparedness of even the best American Students. The French system has serious issues no doubt. However in math and physics, we are quite advanced. They put me in calculus III as a freshman after begging. The course was so easy.

I think what's hurting American Students is that their parents compare their kids perhaps to other kids who went to less funded public schools. But in many countries the average student has access to the most advanced courses a HS kid that goes to a private school here has access to.

[Anonymous]

The H1B program has been a scam from the start. It has always been, and will always be. There is no need for any of these people. It's just another tool for the holders of capital to screw over the people they look down on. And I'm 100% a capitalist.

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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/

The biggest lie in the U.S. healthcare debate is that we do not have enough American doctors. The truth is simple. We produce them. We just refuse to train them.

In 2024 nearly 20 percent of U.S. medical school seniors failed to match into a residency. That is 8,869 qualified graduates who spent years in school, passed their boards, took on massive debt, and still never got the one thing they need to practice medicine.

At the same time more than 9,700 foreign trained doctors matched into U.S. residencies in 2025. Many hospitals prefer them because they accept lower pay, longer hours, and have no leverage to complain. You cannot practice medicine in the United States without residency. So if Americans are locked out, someone else will fill the spot.

The choke point is not medical school. It is the federally funded residency cap. Congress has not increased these slots fast enough while medical school enrollment has exploded. The result is a rigged bottleneck that leaves American doctors unmatched while taxpayer dollars train replacements from overseas.

The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025 would add 14,000 residency slots over seven years. Even that will not undo years of damage, but it is proof that Washington knows the system is broken.

Until Congress expands residency slots at the scale required, the United States will keep graduating qualified doctors who never get to practice. Then hospitals will turn around and say there is a physician shortage and use it as an excuse to import more foreign labor.

It is not a shortage. It is policy.

Citations

• AMA, Biggest Match Day Ever, 2025 data

• AAMC, Medical School Enrollment Growth vs Residency Bottleneck

• Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, IMG Match Statistics 2025

• Norton Rose Fulbright, Congressional Inquiry into Residency Accreditation and Matching Practices

• People Magazine, U.S. Graduate Denied Residency, 2024

Didn't know about this depressing stat, but one of the reasons I chose not to pursue medicine as a HYPSM graduate was I felt residency was a lottery. Spend 500K to find out you'll be a family medicine doctor making 150K per year. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Now we have Don the con taking bribes for favors Melania and Elon are naturalized citizens send them home

[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.

My sister spend $0 to become a doctor in my country in West Africa. She only practiced medicine for 2 years in Africa before moving here to the US. A few years later she is living the life as an extremely well compensated doctor.

The average American is being taken for a ride. It's crazy how people go to school for free in their country, move here and after a few years (immediately for some) land the same jobs American kids spent $100k training for. Crazy.

People like your sister are not good people. A country that afforded such an opportunity and the first opportunity she leaves behind her country and the people who need her services and skills the most. Sjhes definitely not alone. It’s typical, and it’s why third world countries will always be third world, never to truly prosper.

[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.

My sister spend $0 to become a doctor in my country in West Africa. She only practiced medicine for 2 years in Africa before moving here to the US. A few years later she is living the life as an extremely well compensated doctor.

The average American is being taken for a ride. It's crazy how people go to school for free in their country, move here and after a few years (immediately for some) land the same jobs American kids spent $100k training for. Crazy.

Can American kids apply to study medicine in Kenya? I know it’s been popular for kids in our art school to go to college in Spain/france for their top rated arts administration programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I have no doubt your kid is qualified. I came here as an international student from France. I went to a top 4 Physics program. I was shocked at the preparedness of even the best American Students. The French system has serious issues no doubt. However in math and physics, we are quite advanced. They put me in calculus III as a freshman after begging. The course was so easy.

I think what's hurting American Students is that their parents compare their kids perhaps to other kids who went to less funded public schools. But in many countries the average student has access to the most advanced courses a HS kid that goes to a private school here has access to.

I am a well prepared American student and our state college started me off the bat with real analysis. I completed calculus 3 by junior year in high school. You were not placed correctly, which explained the observation in your “peers”. That’s the equivalent of going to science bowl and complain these kids don’t bench press.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My Catholic college I graduated way way back in 1985 at time was a highly regarded commuter college so almost 100 percent of students went to high schools with 20 miles of campus. To be honest was around 90 percent white, 5 percent black and rest mixed. Nearly all Catholic.

I not long ago attended an event on campus to speak after not stepping food in campus since 1993.

The school is now 99 percent foreign. Most kids Barely spoke English. Highly doubt any are Catholic. They have dorms now.

School no longer is attended by kids who live near school or alumni. Like a lot of schools loaded up on full pay international to support poor U.S DEI students and athletes.

The middle class local student of 1980s wgoblive within 20 miles of campus not welcome or charged sky high full pay tuition ,

Which school?

St. Johns University on Queens NYC. Back in the day the CEO of Merril Lynch and seemed half of Wall Street either went to St. Johns or had a family member or friend who went there. Funny in 1996 I heard the CEO of Merril Lunch Dan Tully speaking as he was retiring and he joked in 1996 the only job a St. John's graduate is apparantly eligible for at Merril Lynch is CEO as the trading desks and investment bankers no longer recruit from St. Johns. Tully graduated SJU in 1952. I have no clue why SJU in the late 1980s/early 1990s decided to throw away 120 years of a good thing.

I also went to an event at Baruch in Manhattan and same thing. Back around 2007 I took a college class at a CUNY school as needed the Accounting credit to sit for CPA. There was maybe two US born students, including me in a class of 40. Was very odd. I was a lot older, but also odd I could not talk to anyone really. At any break or before or after class they had groups of people speaking foreign languages. And the different goups barely interacted. The teacher sometimes would ask questions and no one would answer and he point at me and joke hey can you answer I know you speak English. He also had a very heavy accent, so he could get away with it.

Supply and demand. You will never see a baseball team filled with Chinese students or a marketing team staffed by Indians. The reason they are there is bc American kids don’t need to be in a master of finance program, they go directly to banking after bachelors, have their pick of fintech, buy side, or F500 leadership program. I have a team of 7 state school kids on high finance side, and despite them not pulling in banking hours like the front office, they act like they are too good to be working in the back office. That India kid or Chinese girl will start to look appealing if these American kids continue to act so entitled.