“hate campaign in a crucial election year.”
If you disagree with a Leftist on policy, you are a deplorable racist hater. You can’t just disagree on policy.
As an American engineer all am can say is. It’s about damn time!!
The influx of illegals and the tax incentives to export technology design centers to China, India, Taiwan and others has devastated the American middle class and drive to be an engineer. Becoming an engineer is HARD!! And the job security once you graduate is non-existence. I left the private segment and now work for NASA. I make half of what I made but have security. The number of kids going into STEM has plummeted because kids see their family devastated by parents losing jobs. Why go into a field that is hard, has no security, makes you study and take ridiculous unrelated classes (2 years of foreign language for a Electrical Engineer degree??), will leave you with a huge debt and not even a stable job.
My wife and I just completed a Federal Home Loan Mortgage License class and can make more at this starting, than 25 years of R&D in Tech earns. That’s what H1B has done.
These companies have lied to Congress for decades when they’ve claimed that there are insufficient workers in the United States.
And IBM acknowledged it a few years back when a VP told laid off white workers to move to India where they would be paid less but their paychecks would go farther.
Billion dollar companies want to keep the money for the top of the chain and depress the wages for all others. I am paid less today (without even adjusting for inflation) than I was in 1994. My whole department is in this crap boat (each with 25+ years experience) at a major tech company.
About time! these need to go up everywhere. And how does an H1B, like quoted in the article, be here for 10 years?! Surely the company can find, even hire and train and American in that time! Outrageous and proves the need to end H1B now.
Some top ranked graduate students from Stanfurd and other fine universities have not even been allowed to sit for perfunctory interviews in Silly Con Valley.... the electronics corporations prefer to import (somewhat) cheaper and (much more, they think) compliant labor from Communist China (and in programming jobs, India).
This has been going on for at least half a century and every USA administration has played along (taken the Silly Con Valley corporate money) ... and let the companies get away with this.
This is not limited to the big Californication corporate wheels, either. While the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (basically still a management front organization) has pretty effectively scrubbed, cleaned out the history (especially hard now to find it on the internet), one Irwin Feerst nearly secured election (many say he did so .. but that the corporate management officers threw away a big box full of his ballots)..........nearly secured election as an upstart “working level engineer’ candidate for the IEEE Presidency. In the 60’s or 70’s. He was from New York and his main complaint, cause was exactly the same, to try to get some controls, limits on the big companies’ reserving so many jobs for “cheap” imported labor.
So really, there is nothing new under the sun (King Solomon was correct), and today the MAJORITY of the Silly Con Valley labor force are from Communist China, India, Asia, etc. Plus, these are not stupid people.. some of them have gone off payroll to start their own companies here... and they reportedly hire almost exclusively import labor, too
It is amusing to see all the fuss and bother being stirred up to try to get American school kids to study “STEM” .. science,technology, engineering, math subjects. But the kids aren’t idiots... they can see that the employment opportunities right here in USA are so limited as they are.....at least, limited to American students... and so they either study other EASIER subjects (many of which have very limited employment opportunities, too, but at least they’re easier subjects...why take hard courses if you’re gonna be discriminated against and left unemployed when you graduate, may as well take easy subjects and enjoy your salad days)
it is bad for America, not that I am saying to stop all import labor....but let’s at least give our own kids a chance at American jobs first!
America is NOT for everyone.
America IS for American law abiding citizens.
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“BART is supposed to be for everyone!!! How will immigrants feel when they see these disgusting advertisements on their commute?”
On my last paid job before this one, I was replaced by THREE H-1Bs.
Liberals define inclusive as always agreeing with them.
In a group with an Indian boss. He only hired Indians that just so happen to graduate from the same high school he did in India. I’m not sure how he was able to do this but they were all H1B and had some family contacts with his family in India.
Nepotism using H1B is how I saw it. I pointed this obvious gaming of the system but eventually quit. No one in corporate America cares.
One out of 20 have any interest in the US they listen to Indian news and all have socialist tendencies. The system is corrupt and Indians know how to use the corruption to maximum advantage.
This is happening in California? I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!
“Awful, anti-immigrant ads in the BART station today. Where can I donate to support the exact opposite of this?”
Don’t worry about it. They’ll take your job soon enough.
