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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't understand the scope of H1B overtaking the U.S. high tech landscape? Take a drive to the Broadlands neighborhood in Ashburn, VA. It is heavily Indian. They are buying new $1M+ houses with all the bells and whistles.

Do you think these H1B immigrants who are buying these homes are underpaid and overworked? Man, do I have a bridge to sell ya.

There are other previous threads that carefully spell out the scam pipeline involving bribery, South Asians responsible for the hiring process, etc. I urge everyone to read them.

This scam pipeline is hurting American workers. I live in Loudoun County and see the surging population of H1B immigrants. My friends and neighbors, brilliant and profoundly qualified, are losing their jobs to these people.

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I would like to share my personal experience.   I have been developing software since 1982.

In 1980s and 1990s software development was a great career. I was trained in fortran. I was a business major but a company took a chance on me and trained me to do software development.  No companies will do that today.

In 1990's I hired many folks with 2 year associate degrees and trained them to be developers.  that is unheard of today.  training budgets have been mostly eliminated for software developers. and the reason is simple, supply and demand.

The 1990 Bush Immigration bill for H1B and the executive order in 2007 for OPT  unleashed a huge migration of cheap temporary "guest" workers. There became a huge supply of cheap disposable workers, and companies took advantage of that.

stop the overwhelming supply and the market will adjust. now tech workers are getting fired , tens of thousands, and we have hundreds of thousands of cheap visas for foreign workers.

call your senators and congressman. repeal or pause the H1B and OPT visas. There is no worker shortage.   this is government manipulation of the labor market to benefit big companies on the backs of US workers.

the tragedy is that Democrats have been brainwashed.  They believe Zuckerberg/Musk etc as gospel.   Instead of listening to the youth and other young adults struggling to find good jobs.  They should be leading the effort to repeal H-1B, OPT, L1 visa programs.    [/quote]

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