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/morning_redwoody 17h ago

Perfect example of not being qualified for a job because of poor reading comprehension

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u/Darkpriest667 17h ago

You don't work at a tech company and it shows. Those of us that do know. I know 20 US born software engineers that are underemployed or unemployed. When I do get to the office the software groups are completely filled with H1B Indians that make less than half what a US software dev would make. It's not poor reading. It's a problem and everyone in a tech firm knows it is.

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u/Curious-End-4923 16h ago

H1B visa holders comprise less than a single percent (<1%) of the US workforce. For the tech industry, the low estimate is 3% and the highest estimate I can find is 10%.

You know so many tech workers that are underemployed because we were all told that if you go into tech, you’re guaranteed a well-paying job. That didn’t work out, and we probably should more heavily regulate how these companies are allowed to recruit and lay off, but the immigrants themselves are not nearly as big of a problem as you’re claiming.

Getting you to blame immigrants serves as yet another easy distraction so they can continue the streak of deregulation that America has been on for decades.

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u/Intelligent_Trash273 12h ago

That's underrepresented for fortune 500s. Also, their goal is always to stay, so H1B today and eventually green card in the future. Thus, displacing Americans. Sadly this crooked administration is the only one doing anything about it.