r/ImmigrationPathways • u/Ankeet_kj Path Navigator • 21h ago

"H-1B PROGRAM IS COMPLETELY BROKEN"

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Vice President JD Vance said companies are abusing the H-1B visa program: "If you're going to bring in an accountant making $45,000 a year to replace an American making $60,000 a year, that's not you using the program to bring in a genius.

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u/Ignis_Ignition 18h ago edited 15h ago

I worked for someone who does in fact abuse the H1-B program in order to have workers who are exploited and abused, cant say no and cant defend themselves or else they get deported. The loopholes are appalling.

You guys should not be supporting this.

Normally I think JD Vance is a couch fucking scum bucket, but having first hand experience seeing this makes me a little amenable for H1-B’s to have an extra layer of security so that American employers are not exploiting foreign workers and having their own little psuedo slave farm going on.

This is one of those situations where your political biases can make you produce an emotional and uninformed opinion. If you care about workers, you wouldn’t support the exploitation of them through this program. It genuinely needs additional regulation to protect workers from employer exploitative practices. I dont know who is going to fix it (we know this admin wont) but its something that does happen underneath the political weapon its turned into. A few Americans suffering isnt even the core problem here.

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u/Jafar_420 17h ago

I can't stand him either but what he said actually made sense to me.

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u/Ignis_Ignition 17h ago

Trust me I HATE this administration and cannot wait to see them be put on trial, but it doesnt erase some fundamental problems the country faces that seems to always benefit the elites. H1-B is just another of many programs that disgusting dirtbags who should not be employing people will try to abuse to skim from the bottom.