Poll Shows Rising White-Collar Opposition
to Huge H-1B Foreign Worker Program
Breitbart,
by
Neil Munro
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
9/25/2025 4:07:19 PM
A September poll of white-collar professionals shows that 56 percent of U.S. citizens say the huge H-1B visa-worker program is transferring their jobs and careers to white-collar migrants.
The poll of roughly 2,000 Americans and 2,200 foreign workers was conducted by Blind, which is a bulletin board for tech-sector professionals, most of whom are white-collar migrants.
The site reported 56 percent of the Americans polled said “they view H-1B visa holders as direct competitors for jobs.”
Sixty percent of U.S. citizens said that “U.S. citizens and green card holders should be given hiring priority.”
“I think the number is much higher,” responded Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers, which lobbies against
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 9/25/2025 4:29:14 PM (No. 2008953)
Anyone at any engineering firm has had H1B folks taking jobs that could have been filled by Americans. I guarantee it. It is NOT uncommon, in fact it is VERY common. I didn't have it because we were a secure weapons facility which required a high level of security clearance...so no foreigners.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
seamusm 9/25/2025 4:30:25 PM (No. 2008954)
Just in the Dallas, Texas area, in the last 15 years over 12,000 of these people 'stole' jobs from US citizens.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 9/25/2025 4:33:03 PM (No. 2008957)
I have to ask a simple question, are there enough qualified American workers to do these jobs? If, for example, engineering jobs are going unfilled because there are not enough qualified candidates, we should let in foreign workers. We should ALSO require they be paid a competitive wage so they are NOT a low cost choice.
In working in the computer industry, I found that at times we could not hire enough workers. That prevented new products from being built undercutting American profitability and success. I know that companies DID want to hire H-1B workers because they were cheaper. That should be actively discouraged. If a US person would get $70 K, a foreign worker should get roughly the same amount. There may be associated costs to hiring the foreign worker so the total compensation including those extra costs should come to about $70 K.
The reality is, American college grads are shying away from harder (and productive) technical fields. We don't need more teachers, social workers, store clerks, ... we need competent people in science and engineering. Not LIBERAL science and engineering but people who can actually get work done and create functional products.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 9/25/2025 4:55:36 PM (No. 2008968)
Re #3....."going unfilled".....AT WHAT SALARY LEVEL??? This is the key. They companies put out low salaries for highly skilled jobs and then claim "we can't find anyone to work"......but they leave out that if they increased the pay and benefits, they would have workers.
H1Bs are primarily about holding down the salaries of engineers and computer programmers. PERIOD.
That is the whole thing right there in one sentence.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
danu 9/25/2025 6:20:15 PM (No. 2008999)
afaik, the usual suspects-bushclintonobama-cooked up this for profit scam to avoid immigration law.
it wasn't legit then-and still isn't-imho.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
crashnburn 9/25/2025 6:52:36 PM (No. 2009011)
The H1-B program was supposed to bring in high talent engineers and not replace them with cheaper labor. That's how the bill reads.
I was replaced by an H1-B worker after doing my job for more than 2 years.
At least once, and probably many times, I wasn't hired even when I was well qualified in favor of H1-B engineers.
The whole program needs to be shut down.
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I work in IT and have a security clearance so I am pretty immune to H1B effects. But I do see these guys from time to time. Most speak poor English and when they encounter a problem they always have call their colleagues in India at night to figure out a solution to offer the next day.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jiobaobubai 9/26/2025 2:13:28 AM (No. 2009088)
# 3 is so correct in the last paragraph about younger Americans not getting into the hard sciences. I did so in the 80s and have been working engineering or hi-tech since. I don't see any young people even applying or working in those industries, they are not available. I believe it's a mix of corporate greed and lack of qualifications in our younger, home-grown generations.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
petrichor 9/26/2025 7:37:38 AM (No. 2009168)
High-level managers are rewarded for budget wins. Low-level managers are rewarded for progress. Based on a budget. H-1B is all about the budget.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
paral04 9/26/2025 11:23:50 AM (No. 2009294)
We don't need H1B workers. We have plenty of capable people here. Tie to stop enriching other countries by sending out money there.
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