Biden to Let Trump's H1-B Visa Ban Expire in Win for Tech

[Amishman]

26. Yup, very very few H1B jobs couldn't be filled conventionally

It's a bad and badly abused program.

This is a mistake.

In roughly 15 years of working in IT (primarily software development), I've seen only a handful legitimate uses of the program. In my experience the overwhelming majority of these jobs could be filled without using an H1B.

Automation is going to eliminate tens of millions of jobs in the next decade. We need to be aggressively retraining our existing workforce to do these jobs - not bringing in outside labor.

Not to mention that many H1B employers are abusive. Assigning unreasonable work loads knowing the H1B worker cannot easily leave for another job. In some cases it's essentially modern day indentured servitude