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[quote=Anonymous]The business community is trying to have it both ways. They continuously claim there is a labor shortage and at the same time layoffs have increased five-fold this year. Amid these layoffs, the Big Business and the media call for ever more immigration to solve inflation, worker shortages, and our national fiscal problems. This cognitive dissonance is most pronounced in the tech sector. Layoffs in 2022 and 2023 have resulted in over 170,000 tech jobs being cut. Now, the latest news from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is that H-1B visa lottery registrations were up to 780,884, a 61 percent increase from the year before. This follows a 57 percent increase in H-1B visa registrations from the year prior. In other words, the only thing outpacing the number of tech layoffs is the number of H-1B visa registrations. In logic, there is something called the law of noncontradiction. The law simply states that contradictory statements cannot both be true at the same time. Hurray for the logicians as our immigration system is providing a real time example for their classes. Can there be massive tech layoffs of American workers and a shortage of American tech workers at the same time? Tech companies are firing Americans and breaking records for registrations of foreign workers to replace them.

USCIS has reached a similar conclusion regarding fraud and H-1B abuse. They took the step of emailing their stakeholders to scold them about the rising H-1B registrations. Even an administration that is decidedly on the side of “see no evil, hear no evil” can no longer deny the blatant fraud.

We have seen the administration ignore child abuse until it hit critical mass with reporting from The New York Times. In this instance, for the year 2021 there were roughly 274,000 H-1B registrations. The number has increased steadily reaching the current crescendo of 780,884.

Also, keep in mind that H-1B visas are not the only foreign worker pipeline for the tech industry. Sure, it is the primary visa option in the statutes, but that has not stopped the government from creating unlawful programs to supplement the firing of American workers for cheaper substitutes. Remember the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, which allows foreign students to remain after graduation to work. The government has turned student visas into one of the largest temporary employment visas in the country. All to the primary benefit of the tech industry.

This is a prime example of how the government has twisted our immigration laws into a pretzel to accommodate industries that seek cheap labor. We see child labor with the assistance of the federal government, forced labor, wage theft, and indentured servitude. Yet none of this deters the government from bending every rule and pulling every lever to expand the number of foreign workers in the United States. The Biden Administration has greatly expanded H-2B visas annually. They are creating illegal parole programs that admit tens of thousands monthly, supposedly to stop the increasing flows at the border, but keep in mind these people will be provided employment authorization documents (EAD).

Time after time, the Biden Administration is doing the bidding of the captains of industry in the name of compassion and worker shortages. As a thank you, the companies blatantly game the system and break the law by using child and forced labor, while laying off working-age Americans.

https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/tech-visa-applications-break-records-amid-mass-tech-layoffs/

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