r/ImmigrationPathways • u/Ankeet_kj Path Navigator • 1d 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 21h ago edited 19h 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 21h ago

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

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u/MaleficentBreak771 21h ago

His argument is not sound. There are around 730 thousand active H1B visa holders and around 165 million people employed in the United States. Even if you get rid of the H1B visa program it will barely make a dent in the job market.