Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk have stepped in it with the MAGA America First Movement after statements that the H-1B visa program needs to be expanded because of a lack of qualified/motivated Americans to fill the needs of tech companies. Don’t believe this crap for a second because this is just another play for cheap labor by tech oligarchs at the expense of Americans that the overlords believe are too stupid and preoccupied to notice. Many Americans are not buying it. I work in tech for a large corporation which has operations globally. Tech companies bring foreign workers to the US at lower wages to slave away with the payoff for indentured servitude being a green card and ability to bring extended family to the U.S. through chain migration. Some Americans are also currently facing issues in the job market because large corporations with DEI policies pass over whites of European ancestry to meet quotas. My son ran into this issue after he graduated with honors from a state university in Ohio in 2020. He is a strapping 6’4’’ white dude and had a tough time landing an initial interview for posted jobs in his field of finance – Covid made times tough. DEI made things worse for my son. Are there issues in the American education system? Absolutely. There needs to be more emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) instead of all the woke garbage being pushed in schools. There are also massive financial incentives baked into the university system that actively selects against American students as up to 25% of students in some STEM undergraduate programs are foreign nationals owing to a combination of DEI and greed as foreign students pay much higher tuition rates because of their non-residency status. Instead of complaining about the lack of skilled talent, the tech gurus need to ask themselves why would someone in the US suck up education debt in an area of suppressed wages and employment opportunities because of H-1B expansion? Don’t be part of the problem by looking for short-term quick fixes but be part of the solution. If the tech gurus want the “cream of the crop” then go the O-1 visa route. O-1 visas are just that – visas for exceptional talent. The H1B visa program needs to be revamped so foreign workers who are paid less can’t come in and displace American workers. The H-1B visas are valid for up to six years and are subject to employer sponsorship and regulatory requirements. Visas are highly sought after in tech, healthcare, higher education, finance, and engineering. The H-1B classification has an annual numerical limit (cap) of 65,000 new statuses/visas each fiscal year. An additional 20,000 petitions filed on behalf of beneficiaries with a master’s degree or higher from a U.S. institution of higher education are exempt from the cap. Additionally, H-1B workers who are petitioned for or employed at an institution of higher education or its affiliated or related nonprofit entities, a nonprofit research organization, or a government research organization are not subject to this numerical cap. Estimates are that about 150,000 H-1B visas are issued each year with roughly 600,000 total H-1B visa holders in the country at any given point in time. The tech gurus are not getting a uniquely American part of the equation – when the chips are down and nobody else can do it, American ingenuity gets shit done. Simple as that.
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