Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants
&gt; Their lobbyists claim there is a “talent shortage” among Americans and thus that the industry needs more of such work visas. This is patently false<p>There is no way SV would have grown to what it is now without foreign talent. So the shortage has been real for the last 30+ years. Not sure why this point is still controversial.<p>&gt;  most Silicon Valley firms sponsor their H-1B workers, who hold a temporary visa, for U.S. permanent residency (green card) [...] sponsorship renders the workers de facto indentured servants; though they have the right to move to another employer, they do not dare do so, as it would mean starting the lengthy green card process all over again.<p>Then the problem might be with how long the gov takes to process these things, and not with the H1B visas?<p>&gt; the H-1B program is an enabler of rampant age discrimination in the tech industry [...] Almost all the H-1Bs are young<p>Younger people are more willing to move to another country. Also, many students apply for an H1b after their F1 runs out, so of course you get younger people.<p>And this is just from the first page. I feel like the author is just throwing every possible argument against the H1B, instead of making one good coherent point. =&#x2F;