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While this was certainly great what @realDonaldTrump did for the TVA workers, there are many American tech workers who continue to see their jobs outsourced & eventually off-shored.

We need laws & regulations that prevent this from happening in the first place.#RNC2020Convention
What about the AT&T, Verizon, Disney, UCSF, Vanguard, & etc, workers who saw their jobs outsourced to H-1B dependent IT bodyshops? Who’s saving their jobs?

The ‘fissuring’ business model coupled with the H-1B visa program are in serious need of reform & regulation. ImageImageImageImage
While there’s no doubt Joe Biden’s immigration plan would be disastrous for American workers, the Trump Admin has been quite lacking in bringing about any real changes to the rules & regulations governing work visa programs. POTUS has appointed the swamp to high level positions. ImageImageImage

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More from @USTechWorkers

Jul 18
Last week, we showed how the engineering degree — once a solid path to the middle class — is failing new American grads.

This week, we looked at Computer Science.

If you thought engineering grads were struggling, computer science grads are faring even worse.

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Let’s talk about the salary myth.

CS starting salaries have barely moved: just $1,727 growth since 2015—a 1.8% bump in 8 years.

The only real gain came in 2014–15 ($8,924). Since then? Flat.

The market says CS grads are worth what they were a decade ago. Image
Salaries are flat, and job prospects are worse.

CS grads with full-time jobs 6 months after graduation fell from 73.2% (2014) to 64.3% (2023). For programming majors: 69% → 50%.

Unemployment: 6.1%
Underemployed: 16.5% Image
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Jul 11
1/ While American engineering graduates struggle with stagnant wages and limited job opportunities, they face an additional challenge that receives insufficient attention: intense competition from foreign guest workers who are systematically imported to fill engineering positions.

The scope of this competition is staggering. In 2023, while America graduated 137,237 citizen engineers with bachelor's or master's degrees, the federal government simultaneously approved at least 33,836 foreign guest workers with engineering backgrounds through just three major guest worker programs.

(Link to the Substack article in the replies)Image
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Mar 29
AI isn’t taking your job; India is.

NYT: “… tariffs reduce trade by making goods more expensive; they don’t affect services or offshoring, the practice of hiring workers overseas… Indian workers are doing the kind of jobs that Americans workers envy — for American companies.” Image
Major American tech companies, along with leading American banks, proudly highlight their large offices in India and remain unconcerned about Trump’s tariffs. They believe his focus is mainly on the $46 billion trade deficit, rather than on the offshoring of professional jobs. Image
Why are American companies offshoring to India? It’s for cheap labor of course, which corporate admits saves costs. But that doesn’t stop reporter @travelli from pushing the debunked “labor shortage” propaganda. Imagine claiming this amid mass tech layoffs in the U.S. right now. Image
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Dec 30, 2024
🧵You thought the H-1B visa was bad? Wait until you hear about the largest guest worker program killing jobs for new American college grads—the Optional Practical Training (OPT):

• No caps
• Employers get payroll tax exemptions
• No wage requirements

@NumbersUSA explains:
OPT was originally a 1-year work permit for international students graduating from U.S. colleges to gain U.S. work experience to take back to their home countries. It was never meant as a permanent immigration pathway, but rather a short-term opportunity for skill development Image
OPT was intended as a short-term work permit, but it evolved into a tool to secure U.S. jobs and a pathway to for securing long-term work visas like the H-1B. Employers saw OPT workers as desperate, willing to do anything for H-1B sponsorship before their permit expired.
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Dec 17, 2024
A federal investigation is underway after a senior official from @GovKathyHochul’s office flagged fraud involving dozens of state-contracted programming "consultants" who falsified their educational credentials.

The suspects: H-1B visa workers from India hired by outsourcing firms.Image
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A tech recruiter claims Indian students are falsifying bank statements and transcripts to get visas, with some paying others to attend job interviews for them. Once hired, they have someone in India do all the work because they are incapable of doing the work themselves. Image
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An Indian citizen charged for receiving kickbacks for hiring fraudsters is pleading with U.S. authorities for his Green Card petition to proceed while his criminal case is pending in court. This highlights the massive fraud contributing to the Green Card backlog for Indians. Image
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Jun 29, 2024
Here’s a reason why stapling a Green Card to a diploma is a bad idea:

An international student from India falsified transcripts, bank documents, and a death certificate for his father as part of a grand scheme to obtain a student visa and a full-ride scholarship to Lehigh. Image
The troubling part is he would have gotten away with the fraud had he not admitted his sins on Reddit by also *naming* the university where he attended. A Reddit moderator reported it to the university and from there, it wasn’t hard to deduce who the fraudster was. Image
Fabricating documents is a common occurrence to obtain legal immigration benefits. This is one of the reasons why “illegal bad, legal good” is a pointless argument — the LEGAL system is also being scammed!

This guy got caught for being dumb. Now imagine the numbers of got-aways.
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