Congratulations (?) we now live in a country where the vetting standards for refugees literally is significantly higher than to be appointed to the White House cabinet or a federal judgeship.
I too work in STEM/IT, or did until my retirement last month. There is no shortage of IT/STEM workers. We graduate enough. In addition, in the last 3 years alone, about 10,000 US workers have been replaced by H-1B scabs. Disney, Toys-R-US, CT Power, CA Power. Industry after industry. Thousands of workers. Those are available.
What is NOT available is highly trained workers who work cheap. For that, H-1B scabs are needed.
However, I will agree with one aspect of your comment. At this point (2018), we have driven US workers away from the industry. US kids who used to go into CS/IT no longer do so, because they realize that the career lasts until 35 or so. So they have started to shy away from the industry.
If we cut H-1Bs/L-1s/B-1s/B-2/OPT to 25,000 in total instead of the current 500,000, we would get a lot of US kids going into that industry again, like back in the 1990s.
The good news on this, if there is any, is when the maladministration is over, a good, hard look can be had at this process by people with more than an ounce of compassion. Donât abolish ICE; reform ICE. Write the proper and clear laws with respect to immigration. Write the clear and precise rules for managing refugees. We can fix this. The damage here is not permanent.
But this guy in the picture? He shouldnât be allowed to ever manage so much as a houseplant ever again.
My industry is riddled (no pun intended) with H1B visa employees. The software I work in has its own programming language. I cannot think of one U.S. college or university with a programming degree that teaches this language or even exposes the students to the language because all projects go to offshore companies for their development.
Interesting article was published in India Times about two years ago: they did a study, giving Indian programmers a program to write. The result was only 10% got it to work the first time. I see this constantly. The amount of rework ends up costing the client what they would have paid anAmerican programmer with experience.
H1B has killed an entire portion of this business since the 90s.
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Amen, son.
If I could tell you the number of times I was asked to do a project for $60 an hour all inclusive (meaning I also use that rate to pay all my travel expenses) with 23 years experience in the software.
And they fill those positions with guess who?
I live in this world. Every day. And the horror stories I could tell you.
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There are H-1Bs. Note that there are also L-1 visas, B-1 visas, B-2 visas, OPT visas.
In total, there are 500,000 PER YEAR.
If you add in J-1s which are used for summer jobs in lots of places, there are 400,000 per year. J-1s also get tax breaks - employer does not pay unemployment, medicare - about 10% of salary. Itâs cheaper to hire a foreign worker than an American worker.
The Indians fake resumes. They steal stuff from US worker resumes. They have one guy who does the interview, then when the âworkerâ shows up, he is a different guy - they simply substitute one incompetent for the competent guy, and believe that Americans will not notice - one Indian looks pretty much like another, right?
I work with several groups that are working to keep Trump to his promise of greatly changing the H-1B rules. He has already made the DoL have stricter rules. Now, what is needed is:
- Eliminate H-4 EAD work permits
- Roll back OPT so that there are no extensions
- Cut the number of OPT visas to 25,000 or so
- Eliminate the use of H-1Bs for teachers
- Cut H-1Bs to 25,000 or so.
- Put a limit on the number of L-1s, J-1s - currently these are uncapped
I know this, firsthand, and my recruiters tell me this all the time. What theyâve done to prevent this now is they REQUIRE a SKYPE interview, face to face, as a part of the vetting process.
I worked with a client in Findley, OH. I was a replacement for a replacement. The first guy was rolled off to another project, which was fine. They interviewed and accepted a replacement. The first day, the guy showed up and as the client was explaining what still needed to be done, the guyâs face looked more and more confused and upset. Turned out he wasnât the stellar candidate that had interviewed for the position, but exactly what you said - fake.
He left by noon that day and I got an emergency âhelp us. please!!!â call within hours. I had to do the Skype thing and didnât understand why until the client explained it to me. This is now a regular occurance.
I was rather hoping, with all his tough talk, that this moron-in-chief was going to do something about this, but just like all his other lies, nothing was done. What little Iâve heard actually gave exemptions to this - Iâm sure itâs because the bigger companies had lobbyists that insisted on this as a condition of financing the next campaign.
I live with this. Every single day.
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Seems like government officials like Stephen Miller who deliberately impede the function of government agencies, particularly with the intent of delaying services with the intent to harm other people, should be considered to be criminals and treated as such.
Are you paying attention Mr. Miller?
But they have to be white first.
And you know this, because you have the authoritarianâs astonishing ability to imagine into existence any state of facts necessary to make actual facts presented to you align with that which you Just Know to be true.
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When a normal person makes an indirect reference using a pronoun, it is usual to indicate what âthisâ refers to. I guess you need basic instruction in quoting. Sad. Your blatherous vituperation is impossible to answer due to incoherence and confusion on your part.
There are government officials who need to be held to account for the cruelty they have purposely inflicted on people fleeing poverty and violence. We should be looking after refugees and not incarcerating babies. 500+ families are still separated.
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Clearly not, since your statements are completely false. Iâve been in the industry for 30 years, the last half of which have been as a hiring manager. You simply do not know what youâre talking about.