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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work for a major tech company and it's awful how they are taking good jobs and undercutting. It needs to stop it's just a backdoor to cheap labor. Further more trump should enact massive tarrifs on offshore it's another way to undercut American jobs[/quote]

It happens all the time.

And to get back to the issue with the American education system -- for years people have been encouraging young people to go into STEM fields especially in tech because that's where "all the jobs" are supposed to be. And tech companies claimed they had to hire foreign workers for those jobs because there weren't enough qualified American applicants. But then universities ramped up their computer engineering departments and lots more students got those degrees and now tech companies are paying less for these jobs or offshoring them because they don't want to pay salaries that make sense for someone who just took out a bunch of loans to get a computer engineering degree at an American university.

Look, there are some jobs that go to H-1B visas for very good reasons. For example there are certain specialties of civil engineering where the programs at universities in Africa or Southeast Asia turn out more and better qualified applicants for specialized roles and the US simply has not invested in those educational areas enough to fill the positions needed for those specialties. It's a situation like that for which the H-1B program was created.

But there are MANY H-1B holders in the US who work in areas like computer engineering, economics, public health, etc. where it is genuinely questionable as to whether their corporate employers really couldn't find qualified applicants in the US. And many of these visa holders were educated at US universities which means the US has education infrastructure to train people in these areas, including citizens. If we really want to examine our immigration system and ask questions about whether the system is screwing over Americans in favor of both corporate interests and foreign workers (which is the exact argument Trump and his team are making with regards to migrant workers and asylum seekers), then it makes absolutely no sense not to discuss the H-1B program.

Unless this is really just about using poor people as scape goats for all our problems and protecting wealthy interests (including those at US universities, large corporations, and wealthy foreign nationals) above the interests of ordinary working Americans. I wonder.[/quote]

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