H-1B Visas Take American Jobs

[wake_up]

"The U.S. Census Bureau reports that, counting only U.S.-born individuals, there are 101,000 with an engineering degree who are unemployed, another 244,000 who are not working or not looking for work and therefore not counted in unemployment statistics, and an additional 1.47 million who have an engineering degree but are not working as an engineer."

H-1B Visas Take American Jobs

[Gilligan (Premo)]

From that link:

Created in 1990, the H-1B program was designed for employers to import foreign H-1B workers to fill various high-tech jobs only when Americans could not be found, and the law was supposed to make it illegal for an employer to replace an American with an H-1B worker. However, the big corporation lobbyists succeeded in fuzzying up the law so there is now no effective rule to prevent employers from firing American jobholders and replacing them with H-1B aliens.

I hired probably a half dozen H1B folks over the decade that was the 90s; mostly from the UK. It was a very costly and tedious process to do so, worthwhile going through only when the person we wanted to hire was truly that valuable and uniquely qualified. I was not aware that the situation had changed so much..or apparently so, if that article is accurate.