Analysis: Big Tech Conducts Mass Layoffs While Importing 34,000 Foreign H-1B Workers to Take American Jobs https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/11/analysis-big-tech-conducts-mass-layoffs-while-importing-34000-foreign-h-1b-workers-to-take-american-jobs/ Chona Kasinger/Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg/Samir Hussein/WireImage/Samantha Burkardt/Getty Images for SXSWChona Kasinger/Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg/Samir Hussein/WireImage/Samantha Burkardt/Getty Images for SXSW JOHN BINDER11 Apr 20231,362 4:41 Silicon Valley’s biggest tech corporations are continuing mass layoffs in the United States, even as they import more than 34,000 foreign H-1B visa workers to take coveted white-collar jobs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields, new analysis shows.
The analysis, conducted by researchers at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), found that the top 30 tech corporations — which routinely import foreign workers through the H-1B visa program — have laid off or are planning to lay off nearly 85,000 employees in the U.S. in 2022 and the first quarter of 2023.
At the same time, those same 30 tech corporations imported 34,414 foreign H-1B visa workers to take white-collar jobs in STEM fields. Thirteen of these 30 corporations are outsourcing firms that contract directly with Big Tech companies to funnel foreign workers into jobs.
For years, Breitbart News has chronicled the abuses against white-collar American professionals as a result of the H-1B visa program. There are about 650,000 H-1B visa foreign workers in the U.S. at any given moment. Americans are often laid off in the process and forced to train their foreign replacements, as highlighted by Breitbart News.
Take Amazon, for example, which imported nearly 6,400 foreign H-1B visa workers to take American jobs last year — more than any other tech corporation or outsourcing firm in the U.S. Meanwhile, Amazon executives have laid off or plan to lay off more than 27,000 U.S. employees.
Likewise, Google imported 1,562 foreign H-1B visa workers last year while laying off or planning to lay off about 12,000 U.S. employees. Meta Platforms, which includes Facebook and Instagram, imported 1,546 foreign H-1B visa workers for American jobs while laying off and planning to lay off 21,000 U.S. employees.
“Rather than turning to the H-1B program as a last resort when U.S. workers cannot be found, most employers hire H-1B workers because they can be underpaid and are de facto indentured to the employer,” EPI researchers Daniel Costa and Ron Hira write:
This is evidenced by government data showing that technology companies continue to hire H-1B workers in large numbers while significantly reducing the sizes of their workforces. [Emphasis added]
Previously, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) told Breitbart News that major changes are necessary to eliminate corporate America’s abuse of the H-1B visa program.
At the time, OhioHealth announced that 640 American tech and finance employees would be laid off and have their jobs sent to Accenture — a Fortune 500 multinational corporation notorious for importing foreign H-1B visa workers to replace Americans in white-collar jobs.
“Generally speaking, a lot of the H-1B abuse we see is in the interests of the people hiring the [foreign visa] worker, who can undercut the wages of Americans, but is it in the interest of the 700 Ohioans who lost their jobs? Absolutely not,” Vance told Breitbart News.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has similarly told Breitbart News that the federal government ought to be hyper-focused on full employment for Americans before corporations start importing foreign visa workers to fill such open jobs.
“It makes absolutely no sense, at this moment when we have millions of people still out of work, to be bringing in foreign workers to take their jobs,” Cotton said in the 2020 interview. “We need to focus on getting American citizens back into the workforce and back working again.”
Every year, more than half a million American graduates enter the STEM workforce looking for high-paying jobs with good benefits packages. Their chances of landing such a job are cut significantly with the annual inflow of tens of thousands of foreign H-1B visa workers who will compete directly against them in the white-collar labor market.
Nearly all H-1B visa reforms imposed by former President Trump have been reversed by President Joe Biden. Last year, for example, Biden allowed corporations that had been denied foreign H-1B visa workers by the Trump administration to reapply.
This HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR SOME TIME! HILLARY SET THIS UP AT STATE DEPT!
My good friend in NYC had a programming job. Big job. He was called in to be told he will be replaced. (Indian) He could take the 'layoff' now...or agree to train this person for six months...and have the job for six more months .
He lives alone in the city, and had to keep the job and look around.
He called during this time to tell me he HAD TO LEAVE. He said it was like digging your own grave! So painful and demeaning!
He left and had a hard time. He called to say he had enough money for rent, and needed 50 for food. He was tapped out after several months.
He called his sister who is a surgeon. Her HUSBAND said NO to him. A small loan until he found a job.
I, who never made his money, sent him 50.00, he paid back.
On the edge of darkness, he was hired by Macy's IT dept! Upper hire, where they actually pay all of your healthcare premiums, etc. He was hired in at almost six figures, and is close to that now, five yrs later.
He volunteers to hold a balloon every year at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade...and I watch and see him...then text. It's now tradition during the parade, then he texts back.
During the hard time, he left the city for NJ for cheaper rent. He's right off the train and can ride his bike into the city. He has lunch looking out at the Plaza, all of Herald Square. He's doing great. He's a kind soul, very based. It was painful to know someone going through this....these type of work VISAS have been here for awhile. The computer biz has known this, they were targeted first.
But to be told to leave or train who is taking your job....what kind of human mentality is this?
I wrote this up to but actual experience to this...it's evil and taking down America.
What is link between ESG DEI and H1B?
I’m guessing companies can import ‘minority’ workers from foreign countries who aren’t even minority in their own countries and then up their S score or DEI bullshit to please BlackRock. And suppress citizen wages at same time while looking ‘virtuous’ even though they as evil AF.
They have a plan for the future & we're not in it.
And what happens next, Pedes? Do those H-1B workers get pressured to turn over their logins to the Globos? Nah! Can't be.
Cut out the H1B visa worker program. Companies have long abused the program.
How do the libtard techies feel about this, huh?
They always destroy themselves by watching their policies destroy their communities and even their livelihoods. They do have amongst the lowest IQ's and can't critically think...