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Betrayed American Workers Expose Dark
Underbelly of H-1B Visa Scheme

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Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 12/3/2025 10:18:22 AM

They were promised lucrative and stable careers if they "learned to code" and earned a degree in software engineering. Instead, many Americans in the tech industry have been left disillusioned as they face mass layoffs and chronic unemployment -- a crisis they say stems from an addiction to cheap foreign labor pipelines that are made accessible through programs like H-1B and touted by companies as a way to hire the "best and brightest."

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Reply 1 - Posted by: stevendm 12/3/2025 10:24:59 AM (No. 2036824)
I retired from a 44 year career as a s/w engineer. I'm glad I did.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 12/3/2025 10:39:25 AM (No. 2036830)
This is nothing. Wait until AI is unleashed into the coding industry.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 12/3/2025 10:41:54 AM (No. 2036831)
These foreign tech workers have been stealing American engineering and programming jobs for 40+ years. In 1975 we had several Indian engineers working at the large chemical company where I started out. Both were Phds and I believe paid less than Americans would have been paid. One was a bit of a tech nerd type with zero practical engineering experience. He worked inefficiently because he had no "eyeball engineering" skills whatsoever. This needs to stop. Americans WILL step up to fill those STEM jobs, IF the pay is there. H1B workers keep wages for American STEM workers lower than they would and should be.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Californian 12/3/2025 10:48:25 AM (No. 2036843)
Set the $100k per head fee on h1b and the trash hirings will stop instantly. The small number of truly elite from foreign countries are worth the fee. The rest should be kept out.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: chumley 12/3/2025 11:07:28 AM (No. 2036862)
I'm glad I'm retired. It was disturbing enough when they started computerizing our machines and eliminating operators. Now the machines are so connected to the computers if the computers ever go out (and they do) the machine cannot be operated. Those of us with decades of experience are useless as it is a firing offense to bypass the computers even in an emergency. Plus the dirty office politics and backstabbing that has always gone on makes it a miracle to even last to retirement. Now they are hiring barbarians who work cheap. Glad I'm not a young man trying to get into the workforce.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 12/3/2025 11:14:55 AM (No. 2036866)
Unemployment figures for graduates in some STEM fields reportedly exceed those for ethnic studies graduates. That's not right.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 12/3/2025 11:19:23 AM (No. 2036868)
My DH's nephew voluntarily left his job because the company decided to eliminate hybrid jobs and require full-time presence in the office. The company was located several states away and he didn't want to relocate. My DH and I think he made a mistake and should have relocated temporarily while looking to find another job locally. He didn't ask us, so we've kept our mouths shut. Praying he finds something soon.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: sw penn 12/3/2025 11:27:08 AM (No. 2036871)
Greenies shut down coal mining? - Learn to code... Harley moves to Asia? - Learn to code... Displaced due to corporate down sizing? - Learn to code... Learned to code? Get replaced by imported slave labor. Corporate Predation
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Reply 9 - Posted by: joew9 12/3/2025 12:43:36 PM (No. 2036914)
In 1996 part of a large group of engineers replaced by H-1Bs. Again 2002. Again 2014. They got 1/3 our salary. They weren't really good coders. I had derived 100 bytes of assembly for a task. They didn't understand assembly and replaced it with 1Mbyte of C. And then requested I design in more RAM.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: red1066 12/3/2025 12:58:56 PM (No. 2036920)
Most companies didn't need H-1B visas to employ foreigners in this country for the last 40+ years, they just moved production to foreign countries. They paid people pennies on the dollar to do the work, but priced their products at the same price as if it was made in the U.S. The objective was always increased profits and increased stock values. The result is higher unemployment, fewer jobs that pay a decent wage, and a lower standard of living for U.S. citizens.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: walcb 12/3/2025 9:31:41 PM (No. 2037112)
Look, they don't even need to get H-1B, many can do the job on line and remain in India.
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