EricJ From The Bay

Rubbish. Understand there are extremely low standards when it comes to where those degrees are obtained. In addition, H-1Bs are handed out by chance, in a lottery. It doesn't matter if the applicant had a B-Tech degree or a PhD from India Institute of Technology. Moreover, each year 20,000 H-1Bs are set aside for foreigners who attained a master's degree or higher from a U.S. institution. This has created a huge demand for foreigners (the largest population of foreign students in the U.S. come from India.) to enroll in advance degree programs in the U.S. Our universities love this because the foreign students pay out-of-state tuition and to accommodate them, these colleges have created poor quality master's programs - specifically for foreign students to get work permits. The knock on effects are proving to be catastrophic for our insitutions of higher learning. For instance: ✔️ Universites love this set up because they view foreign graduate students as cheap labor and prefer to hire them rather than Americans. ✔️ Science and math jobs have gotten worse over the last thirty-five years because of legal immigration and guest workers. ✔️ It has led to over-credentialization for jobs. In the workplace this has led to the replacement of competence with proxy. ✔️ It has hollowed out learning because curriculum is now optimized for the credential while practical, tacit and apprenticeship-style knowledge loses status. ✔️ Foreign students are 5X more likely to cheat than Americans. ✔️ American student classroom experience drops when foreign students reach 30 - 80% of the class. ✔️ U.S. colleges are now actively scouting abroad rather than for Americans. In the end, all these employment visas have done is depress the wages and deny employment opportunities for our college graduates.

Countless Americans have been forced to train their own H-1B replacements, a practice so widespread that even 60 Minutes documented it. This has been going on since the program was created in 1990. Invoking Einstein and von Neumann is absurd. Neither came on an H-1B visa. They were extraordinary intellectual talents, not interchangeable workers filling ordinary corporate jobs. The modern H-1B system largely serves employers seeking cheaper labor by exploiting the immigration dependence of workers willing to accept lower pay for a chance to stay in America.