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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are already rules about posting jobs and having them go unfilled before getting a visa worker. They work around those rules. Another thing to remember is that not all of this is greedy corporations exploiting impoverished foreigners. Plenty of it is people already here getting family and friends here by any means necessary. I have firsthand experience with this.
In my own family I have a cousin in law who got into management at a tech company and his department  now employs exclusively his extended family members. He sees nothing wrong with this. In his eyes he's helping his relatives which is what good people do. The problems of the American programmer aren't on his radar.
Last month I went on a job interview and the interviewer seemed unusually hostile, grilling me about my personal life (children etc.) I am not used to being treated that way because I am a highly competent scientist in an in-demand field. I asked for a lab tour and the interviewer refused. I peeked in the window on the way out and saw that only one ethnicity worked there. I did get multiple other offers so I'm not some unemployed person whining. [/quote]

I have seen this happen in Fairfax County. A lot of a certain group of H1 holders would brag about getting over family for the same H1 visas, even for jobs like “administrative assistant”. How are American kids to get trained to be the top 10%, when certain groups of people have no problem abusing the system?

It’s BS that American students don’t know how to work hard. I have witnessed in Fairfax County Schools, H1 visa parents starting in elementary school, actively trying to push out any American kid who competes in STEM. Try to call to get your kid into group programming lessons? They hear you are not of their ethnic group and either don’t call back or say they don’t have openings. I have been told “Well this is for OUR community only. Where is YOUR community?” How is this fair? If I was white and openly said “I am only teaching white kids” in my publicly advertised business, people would rightfully be upset. Why are H1 visa holders allowed to be discriminatory?

I have seen math competitions done at certain competitive elementary/middle schools that had parents grading. No parent could grade their own kid, but they would help a friend out/try to shoot down kids outside of their ethnic group. It’s easy to do. “Well that I interpreted that a as an 9 and that’s wrong.”  All the way through high school, certain parent ethnic groups would make sure they ran the stem clubs, even going as far as a teaching a few years in a top stem high school, all to make sure they appointed their kid as club leader and/or made sure their child was selected for State/National competitions. By starting early, these parents push out other American born students from getting the opportunities to develop upper level talent.

I am for immigration, but it needs to be 1) fair 2) regulated more 3) anyone admitted into the United States needs to actually believe in equality & fairness for ALL people. None of this gaming the system and then saying “Americans are lazy” as an excuse to tell yourself that what you are doing is OK.

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Meanwhile, on the western side of FCPS and other parts, we are flooded with the children of poor immigrants. Our PTA couldn't get programs like this going. Teachers were against it unless we could guarantee slots to the poor. When the PTA said it could accommodate that, it still got shot down. Something about supervision and lack of transportation for after school clubs. Also, the school wanted to eliminate or greatly reduce homework and canned the science fair. Teachers were struggling to get students through the most basic material -no wonder they didn't want to do anything like a stupid science fair. This is where we are. It's no surprise certain ethnic groups that were once part of the school community went elsewhere.[/quote]

Another truth being ignored by those in power and justice warriors [/quote]

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