> Unemployed? Employed but take home pay is getting less and less each year? Get ready to compete with 195,000 foreigners each year.
The big corporate interests that employ them could care less if the U.S. was reduced to rubble as long as they still have a consumer base and cheap labor.
There ARE American workers qualified to fill these positions.
If you've never been in IT you may not be aware of how this works.
A guy in India signs on with a company and then the company gives his varying degrees of "training" in a multitude of systems, thus he can claim "experience" in just about anything you might be looking for.
In return, the individual signs an agreement whereby any pay he receives goes to the company, which in return gives him a stipend.
The indian company sells the services to an American company at a fraction of the market rate of an American worker.
The workers are sent over here and often live with up to 20 or so fellow H1Bs to an apartment, because the stipend can be very low.
The American company then makes generous "contributions" to congressmen who enthusiastically support the program, while the company still pockets big savings. Meanwhile Americans are out of work and entry into IT career fields is stymied.
The H1B program has absolutely nothing to do with the availability of "qualified" Americans to do the job. It is merely outsourcing with the foreign recipient being brought here.
A simple message to these employers from the next POTUS:
“Hire Americans or face the consequences.”
Those consequences being the loss of their access to the US markets. If they just want to parasite off our economy, without any loyalty to the US, as in, not paying taxes, not hiring Americans, and not buying American products, then the US owes them nothing in return.