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U.S. Tech Workers
@USTechWorkers
@ifspp we bring together civic minded people to advocate on behalf of American workers harmed by employment visa programs & demand Congress enact reforms.
Aug 16 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Big Tech: “We can’t find qualified Americans to fill these positions.”

Also Big Tech: “We need to place these PERM job ads where no Americans will see them.”

Facebook “couldn’t find qualified Americans” — so they hid jobs from their careers site, refused to consider U.S. workers, and made applicants mail resumes by postal mail, DOJ says.

cnbc.com/2021/10/19/fac…Image
Aug 9 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Trump admin is defending an Obama-era policy that grants work authorization to the spouses of H-1B workers from India in the Green Card queue — even though Congress never approved it — and is urging SCOTUS to toss out a case brought by former U.S. tech workers.

🧵 THREAD In 2015, Obama’s DHS unilaterally gave certain H-4 visa holders — spouses of H-1B guest workers — the right to work in the U.S., even though Congress never approved it.

This has opened the door for hundreds of thousands of additional foreign workers to compete directly with Americans for jobs, despite the original H-4 visa having no work privileges.
Jul 30 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
If you want to understand how the law lets employers legally pay H‑1B workers less than market wages and how that harms American workers, our latest Substack explains it.

🧵 THREAD: Image At the heart of this is the Labor Condition Application (LCA), a brief form employers submit to @USDOL before hiring H‑1B workers.

It’s meant to protect local wage standards and keep Americans from being undercut. In practice, it’s a rubber‑stamp process with no real scrutiny. Image
Jul 18 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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.

🧵 THREAD Image 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
Jul 11 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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 2/ Link to article: open.substack.com/pub/ifspp/p/da…
Mar 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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
Dec 30, 2024 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
🧵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
Dec 17, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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
Image 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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Jun 29, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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
Apr 9, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Bodycam footage released by the Hoboken Police shows them arresting two female international students from India for alleged shoplifting at a ShopRite. Both are graduate students at Stevens Institute of Technology (@FollowStevens) and are repeat shoplifters.

“Will this affect us for H-1B process?” one of them asks as they’re being transported to get booked at the police station. “Will this affect us for H-1B process or any job?”

Officer: “Yes! If they run your information, it’s going to show that you were arrested.”
Feb 3, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 Paul Krugman has been activated by the Biden administration to gaslight Americans into believing all that chaos at the border, which has resulted in millions of illegal aliens being released into the country, has actually been good for the economy.

Let’s debunk his thread… Looks like @zerohedge was right when they said all the new jobs created under Biden went mostly to foreign-born workers.

Krugman saying that’s a good thing because it reduced inflation is ironic because it’s coming from the guy who says immigration doesn’t lower wages.
Nov 10, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 Apple pays $25M fine for finding ways to disqualify Americans from applying for jobs so they could help their H-1B visa foreign workers obtain employment-based Green Cards for “permanent” job positions.

More proof “high-skill” immigration is a scam.
fortune.com/2023/11/09/app…
Image These tech companies claim they can’t find American talent to fill these job openings. Then why are they going to through the trouble to ensure Americans can’t apply for these jobs? Why is a tech company forcing Americans to apply for jobs through regular paper mail?
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Aug 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
.@VivekGRamaswamy’s immigration policy is basically anyone who can prove they’ll be a net economic benefit and can pass some form US civics test before obtaining a visa.

There are over a billion people who could easily fit this requirement.

The only points that matter when discussing immigration policy are:

• the numbers
• qualifications/quality of the immigrants
• what’s best for the American people

Vivek’s policy already fails the first and third point.

The numbers matter!
Jul 21, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
These people think immigration is the source of the problem of why TSMC can’t find qualified workers in the US when the actual issue is semiconductor fabrication plants require a specific skill set that has largely been concentrated in Taiwan because that’s where the bulk of chip… https://t.co/fSJHfFWOOztwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Here’s what’s really going on with TSMC’s skills “shortage”:

TSMC set up shop in Taiwan and trained Taiwanese workers. Over time, these Taiwanese workers developed a skill set comparative advantage because chip mfg was largely concentrated to them: https://t.co/0MK7WzMytoarstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
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Jun 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨 We have filed a charge with the DOJ under the Immigrant Rights Section claiming two Chicago-based companies, P33 and TeCHicago, specifically solicited foreign H-1B visa holders for employment, and therefore engaged in “country of origin discrimination”. instituteforsoundpublicpolicy.org/45-companies-n… P33 and TeCHicago are practicing what’s called “country of origin discrimination” against U.S. citizens and permanent residents, who are a protected class. The charge could allow us to move forward with an administrative action against P33 and/or TeCHicago, or the DOJ could… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Apr 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
.@meghaverma_art's point was liberalized immigration policy in Canada pertaining to student visas has invited an influx of bad actors predominantly from India that are not there for pursuing an actual education, but using it to procure Green Cards through deceitful methods. Canada's lax student visa program as a pathway to getting Green Cards has created blatant fraud and abuse of the problem. Is this "good high-skilled immigration" @debarghya_das?
Apr 1, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Almost 3,500 Likes on a misleading and false tweet. Not only does he get the number of applications wrong, but he goes on to say that H-1B visas are “high skilled” when the minimum requirement for an H-1B is a Bachelor’s degree and most H-1B workers are outsourcing IT workers… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… There’s a visa that is uncapped for truly high-skilled geniuses called the ‘O’ visa. Congress has literally allowed uncapped visas for the best and brightest. When you hear cries for expanding the H-1B visa program, what you’re hearing is a demand for more cheap labor.
Dec 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
These aren’t “software boot camps” like Lamda School, Hack Reactor, General Assembly, etc. that invest several months teaching you to code.

These are IT bodyshops holding classes for 4 weeks teaching you IT basics & on how to pass the job interview while fabricating your resume. It’s almost like attending a multi-level marketing event where these IT bodyshops will target foreign students (majority all from India) in promising them visa sponsorship in exchange for working as contract workers. These shops make money off wage arbitrage.
Dec 13, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
On the House floor today, @RepZoeLofgren claimed that country cap quotas for Green Cards, a fixture of the Immigration Act of 1965 (Hart-Cellar) is “racist” because it’s designed to favor immigrants from “Western Europe”.
@DHSgov’s report says otherwise: dhs.gov/sites/default/… Here are the stats for the last 3 years from the same DHS report. Not one European country even lands in the top 15 for new Green Card recipients. And this is with country-cap quotas! Removal of the country-caps would allow complete monopolization by one or two countries.
Dec 13, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Wow! In her closing statement, @RepZoeLofgren is still lying about the CRS report! She’s claiming that the report said citizens from Africa or the Caribbean would not be impacted by this bill. The report says no such thing! Here’s the link to the report: crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/…
Dec 13, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
.@ZoeLofgren is blatantly lying on the floor about the EAGLE Act. She’s lying about the Congressional Research Studies report about the bill that it wouldn’t harm other countries’ nationals. The report clearly states that it would exacerbate backlogs for ALL nationals. @RepMcClintock does a great job debunking this bill. He correctly points out that the Indians currently take the largest share of employment-based Green Cards every year due to spill-over of unused Green Cards from other countries.