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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a raging attack on H1-B visa holders, highly skilled immigrants on Twitter right now. MAGA is roasting Elon and Ramaswammy for their support of the inflow of highly skilled immigrants in the country.

I cannot believe this is even an argument. People are so dumb.[/quote]

I am an Indian American and my DH works in tech so I am quite familiar with the complexities of this topic. This issue is not simple, there is a genuine shortage of competent IT professionals, I am supportive of H1-B if they are bringing in engineers from IIT s( elite engineering schools in India, IITians command 100k salaries in India), bringing in IIT would truly mean bringing the “best and the brightest”, U.S can benefit tremendously from this IMO.

However, more often than not this is not the case, corporations are interested in bringing in the cheapest talent possible not the best and brightest, so this drives the wages down. Also, I truly feel we have plenty of talent here in the USA, they need to work on supporting our own talent rather than importing talent so corporations can benefit.

As for the hate, this is not new. People should hate the corporations that are enriching themselves over the backs of these people but as always it’s easier to hate brown people rather than take it up with powers that be.[/quote]

The thing is that the graduates of the elite engineering schools in India have only one goal; to come here to the US, or do they not?  I know this is the same at Indian Medical Schools.  It’s a firmly laid out path, that a large percentage of the graduating class follows with a huge drive.  This is the opposite from graduates of corresponding schools in Europe (who do not come here), Australia, etc.

However, it’s absolutely ridiculous to argue about the one program that brings *skilled* people in *legally*, when there are millions of unskilled simply walking across and staying illegally.  Either way all of them are economic opportunists, and most don’t love America, other than as a vehicle (and none are refugees).  Traditionally, the U.S. is the “Land of Opportunity”, so there’s that.  [/quote]
When I worked in Silicon Valley, very few were from elite Indian schools. Most were just regular folks who attended schools nobody had even heard of. [/quote]

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