The Unprotected Class by Jeremy Carl

Author:Jeremy Carl
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781684515592
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2024-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

The H-1B Scam

The H-1B employment visa, which allows companies to employ high-skilled foreign workers in specialty occupations, is also used in the tech industry to discriminate against whites. A significant percentage of fired workers replaced by H-1Bs are white, whereas virtually all H-1Bs are non-white—mostly from India. If whites were a “protected class,” it would be easy to prove a governmental discrimination case against them.

Thus does the H-1B serve the interests of Big Tech companies in replacing senior developers (often white) with compliant, immobile foreign workers (since visas are tied to specific employers) for a fraction of the cost.

As Dr. Ron Hira, a professor at Howard University and a critic of H-1Bs, has observed, the H-1B system transfers wealth from employees to employers. “Guest-worker programs are supposed to fill domestic labor shortages. The H-1B program does not fill shortages,” he said.68 H-1Bs hold approximately 13 percent of tech engineering jobs and one-third of those are specifically given to outsourcing companies from India like Wipro and Infosys.69 Many studies have found that H-1Bs lower earnings and can displace workers.70 Politico went so far as to call Silicon Valley a “den of spies” because of the potential for espionage from bringing so many foreign employees into such a sensitive economic sector.71

For those who say the racial element of this is just coincidental, it is notable that U.S. Tech Workers, an advocacy group that protects the rights of American technology workers and opposes H-1Bs, has been attacked by the odious Southern Poverty Law Center for its ties to the supposed “hate group” the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) as well as the Center for Immigration Studies, both entirely mainstream, Washington, D.C.–based policy organizations.72

Of course, this enormous influx of foreign workers into Silicon Valley did not just affect the tech companies. It affected the Valley as a whole, which became half foreign-born and overwhelmingly from Asia, after being overwhelmingly white American in previous years. (Silicon Valley was 94 percent white and 82 percent white non-Hispanic in 1970.73) This unsurprisingly has led to white flight from Silicon Valley, as real estate prices have soared with massive population growth from immigration and inadequate homebuilding.

The H-1B influx has thus destroyed not only corporate wages, not only white tech workers, but a Silicon Valley community that had been nurtured over decades.

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