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Anti-H1B posters plastered in the heart of Silicon Valleys train network
- bruceb 9y agoFor a less opinion based article try the Mercury News article that this one is based on. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16613568 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16613568
- kamaal 9y agoPeople often forget how the entire ecosystem is structured, when the Trump administration wanted to send back people who were on Green card wait, a statistic was published in the local newspapers here in India. Apparently there were a good 6+ lacs H1-Bs residing in US currently. Add L1 and F1 categories, to it, then add green card holders and you could be staring at 10+ lacs Indians/Indian orgin people in the US already. This is already a lot of people. In some way there are already enough Indians working in the US. This number already rivals the entire head count of several Indian IT firms added together.
- anonybus 9y agoI was born in California, and I love to write software. I have 10 years of experience and have been networking, hackathoning, and applying my butt off for 2 years now, and still no offers. Nothing! I've always stayed sharp, especially because for years I have seen more and more brilliant engineers train their H1B replacements and kicked out with no comparable or sustainable employment options. It is an absolute fact that these immigrant workers are displacing hard working Americans. Why do foreigners get the jobs and the health care while locals like me get the finger? Where do I need to move? A different country? Or maybe a different field altogether? Software has so many people coming in, why do we need even more from overseas? It's starting to look less like a good job and more like a salt mine, and that's probably by design. Profit++
- edward 9y agoHiring should be on merit. Why does it matter where somebody was born?
- kamaal 9y agoYour parent created an account an hour back, very likely just to comment on this issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=anonybus https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=anonybus This is classic troll flag. You can safely neglect what he/she has written.
- anonybus 9y agoAre you trying to silence me?
- kamaal 9y agoI take this is a "Have you stopped beating your wife" kind of a question.
- anonybus 9y agoYou don't need to be so thorough, you could have just said "yes".
- fredoliveira 9y agoHere's a thought: do you think there could be another reason, beyond skills, why you're not being hired? Do you think it could be because of personality traits? A person who jumps to ideas of bigotry immediately (like you just did) doesn't sound like someone I'd be excited to work with. Could that be it? Honest questions.
- anonybus 9y agoShouldn't a country look to benefit and protect its own citizens?
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- IshKebab 9y agoYou are expensive. Tech jobs in America earn double what they do in other western countries.
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- dderiso 9y agoThese guys are behind it http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/261/261634671/261634671_201512_990.pdf http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/261/2616346...