Thousands Of Indian IT Professionals Now Jobless Scrambling For Options To Stay In The U.S.
As per some industry insiders, between 30 to 40% of those laid off recently are Indian IT professionals, a significant number of whom are on H-1B and L1 visas.
Sessions, Cruz, Grassley, Jim Jordan (The Freedom Caucus) efforts to restrict and limit H-1B foreign hires - they didn't even have to have a bachelors degree - and Americans couldn't sue Facebook for discrimination. This is a great article detailing the history of the heroic efforts by Trump and the Freedom Caucus to level the employment field for American tech workers: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2021/02/01/the-story-of-how-trump-officials-tried-to-end-h-1b-visas/?sh=319bf48f173f
Love how Forbes ends this by saying how this will lead to offshoring. Shows whose side they are on.
Forbes was sold to Chinese investors in the 2000s I believe.
What hasn't been sold to Chyna.
It probably will with no penalty for businesses who engage in that sort of crap.
Yes though I like that the article gives such good historical info on just how long Patriots were pushing for this - 10+ years already - plus it really shows how crooked US Chamber of Commerce is and DOJ.
The golf club Republicans
Eh... I dont agree this is a good sign. I've heard that many of the layoffs were white males, and they have programs to focus on "equity" to hire low pay or no pay "diversity" interns (and programs run by BLM) and attempt to get the trained to be productive within a year... many of the H1B types are pretty terrible and don't work out so they probably swapped some low wage failures with some others.
I don't think this means suddenly there will be more good jobs for talented Americans.
And also, I'm not saying that "non-white" Americans can't be good engineers, I have worked with many... just that if they aren't good enough to actually figure things out already... randomly hiring a bunch of interns who are not really all that qualified is not likely to work. A few natural talents will emerge probably... but its the same for "white" people too.
Nah - over 50% layoffs are H-1B from India, and Google quit issuing perm applications months ago. A hiring freeze back in August! https://www.dice.com/career-advice/googles-extended-hiring-freeze-could-impact-company-culture The article below is current but there was another one a few months ago. https://eng.bharattimes.co.in/tech-layoffs-google-pauses-green-card-applications-from-employees/ This is stopping of H-1B, a really good thing. It's not about race - it's about equity, standing, and access to opportunity in your country regardless of skin color. Personally, I think the H-1B workers have been treated poorly and like de facto slaves - entirely hired at employers' will. Maybe it will free them up to other opportunities as well. Australia, Norway, Holland.
We don't need them here either, thanks.
Curious. That is not at all what I've heard from folks I know who work at amazon, including a couple who were effected.
Do tell - what are they saying?
Odd, I don't notice that at all (except for anything related to finance)... pretty much everything else seems to be white women. I get several a day... usually including nice little head shots with the advert... not sure if thats supposed to make me respond. Also, in fairness I don't actually respond, so maybe if I did they would be indians?
You love to see it!
WHY NOW? Why are the tech companies now laying off foreign workers after it seems like they won in courts and they've got a corrupt Democrat in the White House (Biden).
So why are they folding on the H-1B issue?
Is it time to get foreigners back to their home countries? [WAR COMING?]
Maybe.
And maybe asset seizure as well.
And maybe a few other things.