H-1B is bad for diversity since over 70% of its recipients are from one country: India

"Foreign high-tech workers are taking American jobs and making Silicon Valley's diversity problem worse, Rev. Jesse Jackson said in a Fortune interview.

"There are Americans who can do that work, and H1B workers are cheaper and undercut wages," Jackson said, referring to the class of visas most often used by tech workers. He said the tech community had a problem letting new people in and giving them opportunities."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-16/black-lives-matter-highlights-adversity-facing-black-tech-ceos

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/why-there-are-no-black-ceos-on-this-years-disruptor-50-list.html?__source=Facebook%7Cmain

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2014/12/22/jesse-jackson-get-rid-of-foreign-tech-workers.html?__twitter_impression=true

“Foreign visa programs devastate the thousands of students graduating from our phenomenal universities, hindering them as they seek to begin their professional careers.”

“At a time where the coronavirus has halted the hiring process for most companies, and most students have lost their summer internships or jobs, there is absolutely no reason to make positions available for those out of the country,” Klapatauskas said. “The country owes it to college students to protect the job market as students will be the ones to build and strengthen the U.S. economy down the road.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/15/more-college-student-groups-urge-trump-to-halt-h-1b-opt-visas/

"Facebook, for example, has gone from a workforce that’s 3% Black to 3.8% in the past six years."

"Uber Technologies, Inc. has filed 3,211 labor condition applications for H1B visa and 877 labor certifications for green card from fiscal year 2017 to 2019."

"Microsoft Corporation has filed 16,598 labor condition applications for H1B visa and 5576 labor certifications for green card from fiscal year 2017 to 2019."

"Amazon Corporate Llc has filed 4,481 labor condition applications for H1B visa and 2159 labor certifications for green card from fiscal year 2017 to 2019."

"IBM Corporation has filed 26,872 labor condition applications for H1B visa and 745 labor certifications for green card from fiscal year 2017 to 2019."

"Facebook, Inc. has filed 7,690 labor condition applications for H1B visa and 3616 labor certifications for green card from fiscal year 2017 to 2019."

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/12/six-years-into-diversity-reports-big-tech-has-made-little-progress.html?__source=facebook%7Cmain

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Uber-Technologies/1083962.htm

Meanwhile, August 5, 2019:

"A group of Democratic senators has demanded in a letter sent to Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, that the internet giant convert its more than 120,000 temporary and contract workers to full-time employees."

"The senators pushed for a number of changes to how the company treats temps and contractors, including moving them to full-time status after six months as well as equalizing their wages and benefits with permanent staff."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/technology/senate-google-temp-workers.htm

So,
"Google Inc. has filed 22,524 labor condition applications for H1B visa and 6,482 labor certifications for green card from fiscal year 2017 to 2019."
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"Google Inc. has filed 120,000 + 22,524 labor condition applications for H1B visa and 6,482 labor certifications for green card for fiscal year 2019?" GOOGLE (1,501) —

Microsoft (1,022), Facebook (798) and IBM (633) were in 2017 top OPT employers. DHS data showed that Amazon earned nearly $25 million in tax breaks for hiring foreign nationals instead of U.S. tech workers."

https://www.starbeacon.com/opinion/columns/the-anatomy-of-a-u-s-job-k–ler/article_57de8aed-884b-50fb-8ef2-bc10ac84ae74.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/why-there-are-no-black-ceos-on-this-years-disruptor-50-list.html?__source=Facebook%7Cmain

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After 35 years as an IT engineer, I will say one thing; H1B workers are presently NOT paid less than domestic workers. These are high paying jobs, which makes this even more of a tragedy for America's under-employed youth.
What we are misguided on, is what education these jobs actually require. Most entry-level support positions in project mgmt, applications, systems or network only require a HS or JR College education, some certification, a demonstrated attitude to learn, the ability to work well with others, and about 6-12 months of job training to be productive. The only reason workers are imported and H1B sponsored in the first place, it to indenture them to the firm for a set period time, and discourage job-hopping for more $$. Retaining tech workers was a major cause of CIO heartburn back in the early 2000s, which ultimately lead to this H1B mess. So now, many recruiting firms inflate the education requirements, and fill the positions with fake credentials from overseas to get the indentured worker they desire. American workers would gladly accept the same contract assignment terms if offered. We can no longer stand-by quietly as another so-called expert says : 'we need to import the best and brightest to fill these highly technical roles'. Enough is enough !

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881245867/trump-expected-to-suspend-h-1b-other-visas-until-end-of-year

H1B needs to frozen immediately. It is being misused.

American students spend well over $200K for a college education and then they get replaced by H1Bs: Welcome to the graduate class of 2020!

H1Bs have job security while Americans get laid off

bad for diversity and racism.

I posted here and elsewhere about the abuse of H1-B. Another source of abuse is the L1 visa, for intra-company transfers. I personally have known hundreds of people who came to the U.S. via these processes. The vast majority do not have exceptional skills; they simply are good talkers and found ways to connect with HR and/or management.

The U.S. does not need such high number of skilled immigrants. There is absolutely a lot of untapped talent right here, but companies do not want to pay more, allow for retraining and continuing education, which is a necessary part of the job. Companies want free access to all talent in the world, plus ability to place their divisions where it suits them to play less taxes, and the protection of the U.S. legal system, which is backed by the military power.

So, companies 'want their cake and eat it too'. It is up to the American workers to realize they've been had. We need to demand reform to this immigration system that is working well just for the companies, not the workers.

almost 50% of IBM's employees are in India, and the almost same percentage of the workforce in IBM USA is Indian. I assume the same true for other large tech companies such as Microsoft, Google.

While USA economy is going down gradually, India's economy has been booming, all credit goes to US politicians and people who let that happen to US. Indians are as smart in any way but instead, got opportunities and really took the advantage of intellectual capital of the US.

Don't blame H1B instead blame yourself and Govts who let these large corps move the jobs to the outside US

H1-B is good for America, even Trump knows this.

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