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[quote=Anonymous]The H-1B story in 9 lines

(aka how a “talent visa” became a cheap-labor pipeline)
1.1990: Congress creates H-1B. Supposed to be for rare, high-skill specialists.
2.1990s: Corporate lobbyists strip out protections for American workers.
3.2000: “Tech shortage” claims explode. Big Tech wins huge expansions.
4.2000s: Outsourcing firms figure out the loopholes — and flood the system.
5.2010s: H-1B stops being a talent visa. Becomes the backbone of offshore staffing.
6.Americans get laid off and forced to train their replacements.
7.2023–2024: Congress wakes up. Bipartisan reform bills finally appear.
8.2025: Trump slaps a $100,000 fee on H-1Bs. DHS tightens rules.
9.Now: The country is realizing what this visa actually became…  a labor-arbitrage machine, not a talent pipeline.

The “rise and fall of H-1B” isn’t a slogan.
It’s the story of how a good idea was hijacked … and why reform is long overdue.

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/11/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-h-1b-visa/

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