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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wondering where the IT jobs went??

H1bs (and OPTs and L1s)

A landmark study from Harvard economist George J. Borjas, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, has confirmed that the H-1B visa program is being used to undercut American workers.

After analyzing merged federal data from the Department of Labor, the Department of Homeland Security, and the American Community Surveys, Borjas found:

H-1B workers earn 16% less than comparable Americans – a gap of nearly $31,000 per year – after controlling for education, age, gender, occupation, and location.

Over a six-year visa term, each H-1B hire saves employers approximately $100,000 in payroll costs.

American software developers, the largest H-1B occupation, face a 30% wage disadvantage, and the underpayment is systemic: 75% of H-1B hires occur outside the top 25 firms, with a wage gap of -18.5% across those smaller employers.

Perhaps most revealing: when Borjas modeled the impact of charging employers $150,000–$200,000 per visa, demand barely declined – all or nearly all 85,000 annual visas would still be used. The savings from underpaying foreign workers are so large that employers would gladly pay and still profit at the expense of American workers.

George J. Borjas, NBER Working Paper No. 34793 (February 2026)

https://gborjas.scholars....4793_1.pdf
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[b]Tangible actions you can take to help your children [/b]

America’s largest tech companies are laying off American workers by the tens of thousands while continuing to import foreign labor through the H-1B visa program.

[b]In 2022, the top 30 H-1B employers hired 34,000 new H-1B workers while laying off at least 85,000 employees. [/b]

If there were truly a “worker shortage,” these companies would not be conducting mass layoffs.

Please send a message to your U.S. Representative urging him to cosponsor H.R. 7451, Rep. Greg Steube’s EXILE Act, to end the H-1B visa program.

Then, send a message to your U.S. Senators urging them to cosponsor S. 2941, Sen. Tom Cotton’s Visa Cap Enforcement Act, to make the 65,000 annual H-1B cap a true cap by closing the loopholes that allow hundreds of thousands of H-1B workers to operate beyond it.[/quote]

Are you EFFING KIDDING?  The billionaires are looting this country. The billionaires are the ones who own the companies and want H-1B workers at low pay to come to this country.  Most H1-B workers are working for crap pay, because the middle men are making the money.   POTUS is a billionare who hires illegal immigrants, let along legal H1B worers.

Plus, Americans are not educating their children like other countries are.  Look at the Chinese.  USA will always need imported talent.  But, yes.  There is zero need to get H1B workers for mid level or low level jobs if that has been goin on.  (Which I doubt). [/quote]

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