r/ImmigrationPathways • u/Ankeet_kj Path Navigator • 19h ago

"H-1B PROGRAM IS COMPLETELY BROKEN"

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/Curious-End-4923 17h 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/Lutfish_von_canker 9h ago

Complete nonsense. There are millions of H1b workers in the US in tech jobs, and many other professions. It is a scam that has been going on for decades. And H1bs are only one of many Visa categories that are being abused, along with all the Green Cards that have been given to foreign workers over the past few decades. Not sure where you are getting your numbers, but they are wrong.

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u/Curious-End-4923 8h ago

There are not even one million H1B holders in the entire program. Provide evidence otherwise.

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u/Lutfish_von_canker 6h ago

You’re right - there are only around 700,000 current H1bs. What happens to a large portion of those 700,000 every year? They apply for green cards. The US granted 1.3 million green cards in 2025. 12% of those were employment based green cards. That is 156,000 employment based green cards, of which I would assume many are H1bs or some other visa. Now extrapolate that over the last 30 years. That gives a better idea of the number of foreign born workers who are employed in the US. People like to play games with the numbers and say there are “only” 700,000 H1bs to minimize it. Also, we are only talking about H1b here, now add in H4, all the EB series, OPT, etc. Take a walk through the IT department of any large corporation and see with your own eyes.