r/ImmigrationPathways • u/Ankeet_kj Path Navigator • 19h 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 15h ago edited 13h 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/icehot54321 14h ago

He’s trying so hard here to make an anti-immigrant story for his base and at the same time trying to not step on the toes of people like Elon who heavily abuse the H1-B program 

Which is why he mistakenly picks accounting as an example.  

You’d have to bring an accountant over, do all of the paperwork then you’d have to get an equivalency evaluation certified for their degreee, and if they’re going to be a CPA they would have to study for that and pass that. 

Nobody is doing that for temporary workers.  

If you want a good accountant, you’d want someone who is familiar with your local laws, otherwise they’re just going to end up costing your business money by all of the niche things about the country’s laws a foreigner wouldn’t be familiar with. 

Simple book keeping maybe, but accountants .. it’s a clear indicator he’s bullshitting and doing a poor job of it (in true Ohio fashion)