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> Companies are cynically using visa programs no native citizen ever asked for or wanted because they are nothing but an avenue for large corporations to enslav
by belltaco 4y ago
> Companies are cynically using visa programs no native citizen ever asked for or wanted because they are nothing but an avenue for large corporations to enslave foreign workers with salaries that no American would ever tolerate?
Categorically false, go look at the public H1B salary data for large companies and you will see very competitive salaries. If anything, they're on the higher end, much less "no American would ever tolerate".
If you just revoke visas, those workers in those jobs and the jobs will be nearshored to Canada/Mexico offices, and new jobs will either be offshored and nearshored. This means the money paid to the workers will go out of the US economy, hurting supporting non-tech jobs. Newer members of the team are likely to be recruited in those places rather than the US, hurting tech workers. This has already been happening.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/08/business/dealbook/h1b-visas-us-jobs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/08/business/dealbook/h1b-vis...
- droopyEyelids 4y agoLarge companies don't get many of the H1B visas overall, and they generally aren't the ones abusing the H1B visa process. Last I saw, something like 80%+ of H1Bs went to bodyshops like Infosys and TCS, which certainly don't pay well, and definitely do make their employees live somewhere where job swapping isn't easy.
- belltaco 4y agoIn the top 15 for 2022 I see Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook/Meta, AWS, Apple, Intel, Walmart, JP Morgan Chase.
- droopyEyelids 3y agoThanks I stand corrected