84% of H-1B Visas Go to India and China: Is It a Scam in Disguise?

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• nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Immigrants like Elon Musk are unquestionably a net positive.

  OK that’s where I quit reading. You can’t be serious.

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• zephorah@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is enlightening. Locked to a company by virtue of your visa. Working without pay while waiting for your visa.

  I can see why these working class hating CEOs like these visas. You get talent while bypassing some of those pesky American labor laws.

  And we on turn have to outsource for this talent because the university positions are outsourced to other countries, in part, no doubt, because we can’t afford them.

  Another motive to not subsidize education. The cycle of taking advantage of masters degrees would end.

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• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean… they are more than 35% of the world’s population. And in order to grant visas, people must seek them. With cultural and socioeconomic factors, there is no reason to expect population from all countries to seek and be granted visas equally?

  I wonder what the distribution looks like for the equivalent visas in europe and other countries besides the USA.

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The people who get H1Bs aren’t representative of the world, but the native-born tech worker population isn’t representative of the USA either. There are cultural factors involved, not just the judgement of the people who issue H1Bs.

  Other than the gigantic tech companies, the other beneficiaries of the H-1B visa program are India and China. Seventy-two percent of H-1B visa recipients were from India; 12% from China.

  That’s 84% of the total number.

  DEI stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. It’s intended to boost the number of “minorities” in an organization or institution. And at least 84% of the time, that’s exactly what the H-1B program produces!

  The idea that DEI programs are for the benefit of Indian and Chinese people is, frankly, nonsense. Hasn’t the author heard of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard? It’s kind of a big deal.

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  • Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As someone in IT (but not a tech company), Indians don’t really count as diversity anymore. There are a ton of them already. I would estimate there are 3-4x as many Indians as there are women (of any race)

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Stop calling it diversity if you mean minority. Diversity means a variety of people from different backgrounds. So some Indians on a team do count as diversity, as long as the group itself is diverse. Every ethnicity can count towards diversity.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The county with the insane I.T hustle gets a lot of I.T jobs.

  Weeeeird.

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because they work cheaper and can be abused a lot more than Americans. That’s why, that so called hustle is just abuse.

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