“The H-1B program worsens the very shortages it was supposed to address,” says an article by a member of the New York Times editorial board.
Farah Stockman wrote:
Elon Musk and the other tech moguls fluttering around Donald Trump claim that Silicon Valley needs more H-1B visas to bring in foreign workers because there aren’t enough Americans studying science and tech… There’s some truth to that. But what they don’t tell you is that for more than a decade, Americans working in the tech industry have been systematically laid off and replaced by cheaper H-1B visa holders.
“When Americans realize they can’t make a living as software engineers, they leave the industry [so] the H-1B program worsens the very shortages it was supposed
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