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

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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.

This. There is also the issue of Indian managers who get in to tech companies who will only hire and promote Indians. This is what has happened to too many of our companies.

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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.

This. There is also the issue of Indian managers who get in to tech companies who will only hire and promote Indians. This is what has happened to too many of our companies.

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and capital one IT departments are like this. Have to be Brahmin to get a job

[Anonymous]

I stubbed my toe this morning. Must have been an h1b who left out the toy I tripped on. I’m very clever and incisive and not at all a smooth-brained, fear mongering, racist

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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.

Infuriating if you ask me. Thats all our money and our jobs they got over there after MFN status and offshoring. Ross Perot being right and not getting elected was the worst thing to ever happen to this country

The offshoring of jobs is to India, not China.

No sir. It’s actually to both

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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.

Infuriating if you ask me. Thats all our money and our jobs they got over there after MFN status and offshoring. Ross Perot being right and not getting elected was the worst thing to ever happen to this country

The offshoring of jobs is to India, not China.

No sir. It’s actually to both

and to a lot of other places

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I stubbed my toe this morning. Must have been an h1b who left out the toy I tripped on. I’m very clever and incisive and not at all a smooth-brained, fear mongering, racist

It probably was. We need to stop importing cheaply made toys from your country too

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Anonymous wrote:I stubbed my toe this morning. Must have been an h1b who left out the toy I tripped on. I’m very clever and incisive and not at all a smooth-brained, fear mongering, racist

It probably was. We need to stop importing cheaply made toys from your country too

My country being what? I’m white and you’re a racist clown

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said President Donald Trump instructed her to have the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services pause the diversity visa (DV1) program.

everyday more progress

The Diversity Visa Program, more commonly known as the green card lottery, is at a crossroads. Over the past few years, criticism of the program has grown louder, with President Donald Trump and his administration leading the charge.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/us-green-card-lottery-suspended-after-brown-shooting-officials-say.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I stubbed my toe this morning. Must have been an h1b who left out the toy I tripped on. I’m very clever and incisive and not at all a smooth-brained, fear mongering, racist

i call BS.

an H1B would not leave out a toy unless you told him to. an H1B will do whatever you say as long as you dont ask them to think for themselves. that is impossible.

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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.

I hope she isn’t the African doctor who almost botched my friend’s dad’s surgery . They had to call in an American dr to save the day. I wish I was kidding or trolling!

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Anonymous wrote:I call PPs admission stats BS. 30-35% from foreign countries for undergrad degree? Which university is this?

Not the university.

Engineering.

It’s not foreign students. It is American students who are non-White. Specifically, American Asians who are excelling in colleges and getting jobs.

If companies stop giving H1B visas, jobs will go off-shore. Problem solved.

And regardless of what lip service will be paid against H1B, if Americans can not compete in skill and salary, companies will shift the work somewhere else.

It does not matter at all. H1B has America by its short hair.

Fine by me if they go offshore.
At all the workers won’t be here

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Anonymous wrote:
"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.

PP agree. I agree with you 100%.

My reaction too. Traitor to their country.

Well my country tried to kill me when I was an infant, and teachers bullied me nonstop because my dad didn’t buy them gifts. American teachers handed out LOVE and I thrived from their mentorship. If anything I am not a traitor to those who invested or believed in me.

I think we are talking about the sibling who was trained by your country and then chose to take those skills elsewhere for maximum economic gain. We aren't talking about you, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I stubbed my toe this morning. Must have been an h1b who left out the toy I tripped on. I’m very clever and incisive and not at all a smooth-brained, fear mongering, racist

Obviously not smart enough to avoid stubbing your toe.

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In the 90s when I was an adventurous graduate I went to Hong Kong on a whim and got a job at a local company as an interior designer. The company applied for a work visa for me.
When I went to the visa office for the interview, I was aggressively asked why my job could not be done by a local Hong Konger. I was also asked what made my skills and education so special that they needed to hire me.
Those questions stayed with me for a long time because they were valid questions. I am Chinese (but not from British Hong Kong) and this interaction really made me think.
I did get get issued a work visa in the end.

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How many Americans are on the list in Asia, Africa and India to go to there best schools and get Visas to get their highest paying jobs?

Did you know every country or continent has their version of Harvard. The best university in Japan is nicknamed the Japanese Harvard. Pull up picture everyone students teachers are Japanese. Best University in Africa same thing all Black, Best University in China all Chinese.

Their dont do it. Yet a big uproar if we even scale it back a bit.

How about every Indian that comes here on a H1B Visa India has to accept a person from the USA at same salary. How about every Indian who goes to college here they hold a spot for one of us.

No that would never happen.

I personally did work in two foreign countries briefly Japan and Bermuda. They wanted nothing to do with me. I was paid out of US. Could not stay a second longer. In Bermuda I went home every weekend for 12 weeks. In Japan I could do presentations, present at conferences, do sales calls. But could do no work for money.

They are not letting us go there.