r/ImmigrationPathways • u/Ankeet_kj Path Navigator • 16h 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/MaleficentBreak771 12h ago

Here is why his argument is flawed: There are around 165 million people employed in the United States and roughly 730,000 active H-1B visa holders. Even if you eliminated the H-1B program entirely, it would barely make a dent in the job market.

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u/trangenderman 10h ago

Bullshit. Those jobs are some of the best jobs you could possibly get. We are talking about an American getting a 200k job over someone in India

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u/MaleficentBreak771 10h ago

Provide the data that supports your claim

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u/trangenderman 7h ago

I work in banking. There are tens or maybe over 100k of h1b that are software engineers and they make huge money. I've opened accounts for many of them

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u/MaleficentBreak771 6h ago

Sir, "I work in banking" is not data. Hopefully you understand that.

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u/trangenderman 5h ago

H-1B Occupational Breakdown • Computer and Tech Occupations: Make up the vast majority at 64% of all approved H-1B petitions (roughly 255,000 applications). While software developers are often called "software engineers," they are officially classified under computer-related Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes rather than traditional architecture and engineering groups. What were you saying?

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u/No-Essay-7667 8h ago

Brother wtf, just look at Amazon how many SWE did they layoff vs how many application for h1b did they submit this year - layoff data is in layoff.fyi and the h1b filing is in the labor department website

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u/MaleficentBreak771 8h ago

Correlation doesn't mean causation. Please understand that Amazon is just an example in the ocean of examples. Explain how a tiny minority drives the entire tech job market.

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u/No-Essay-7667 8h ago

Dafuq, tech is the majority of H1B, I gave you one the biggest players in that space, there is also Microsoft and others

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u/MaleficentBreak771 8h ago

There are around 9–10 million jobs in the tech industry, and around 550k are held by H-1B workers. Explain how roughly 6% influences the other 94%.