Businesses love cheap labor like a fat kid loves cake. The reason we have so many illegal aliens in the United States is we have so many companies willing and wanting to hire them. They aren’t simply hiring them over Americans, they’re hiring them over Americans for much cheaper than they can hire Americans – many times for cash, avoiding taxes. It’s just a simple fact of economics, made much worse by the failures of Joe Biden and his administration to secure the border. But the fight that is brewing just over the horizon is not about illiterate illegal aliens coming to service the physical labor tasks around the houses of rich Democrats; it is about the fight over the legal immigrants these Democrats will not fire for making eye contact or speaking to the: people coming to the United States on a H1B visa.
The American Immigration Council describes an H1B visa as “a temporary (nonimmigrant) visa category that allows employers to petition for highly educated foreign professionals to work in ‘specialty occupations’ that require at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent. Jobs in fields such as mathematics, engineering, technology, and medical sciences often qualify. Typically, the initial duration of an H-1B visa classification is three years, which may be extended for a maximum of six years. Before an employer can file a petition with USCIS, the employer must take steps to ensure that hiring the foreign worker will not harm U.S. workers.”
These visas came into existence to fill the void left by the failing American education system. We were not creating enough educated, skilled workers, instead pumping out gender and race studies grievance drones and sociologists to manufacture studies to keep them feeling self-righteous.
The problem is we never corrected that failure.
Engineering is hard, medicine requires a lot of work and discipline, etc. American popular culture requires immediate gratification – social media influencers only have to wait a few seconds for the likes and “tips” to come rolling in. Planning for when you’re really old – like 30 – is something people with fewer than a million followers do.
Rather than address this rot by disallowing federal student loans and grants to study fields with a 3 percent employment rate – fields like gender or race studies, where the only jobs available are teaching other people dumb enough to take those classes or explain to left-wing corporations why they need to defecate on Martin Luther King’s grave by hiring based on the color of an applicant’s skin and not the content of their resume. There aren’t nearly enough of those jobs to go around, relative to how appealing these universities make the profession seem.
Choke off the federal money, and these students can choose a useful field of study or get their fitting for the barista uniform before they pack on the freshman 15. If their parents want to cover the costs, let them. Not everyone can be saved – the world needs cautionary tales too.
Without an effort to create enough high-skilled labor being churned out (and I mean skilled, not simply people with the degree) the H1B will continue to exist.
But to pretend it is not being exploited by tech companies looking to do what those Democrats who don’t want to pay an American to cut their lawn are doing is ignorant.
Foreign labor, even skilled labor, is cheaper. Companies throwing their hands up and whining about how they can’t find enough workers is an old, tested trick to get people for less, who can’t bitch about their low wages or they’ll be let go and shipped back home. The H1B visa worker is tethered, essentially owned, by the company that sponsored them. Get fired and they’re gone.
That incentivizes silence and acceptance of low pay and abuse.
The truth is there are plenty of people with the education to do the job being graduated, but many lack the skills and drive of foreign workers. That’s a failure of the education system and no one seems interested in addressing it.
It’s being described as “meritocracy,” when in reality it is manipulation. Acknowledge the problem, but do not address it because the problem itself is actually beneficial to the businesses.
There is a fight brewing that is just now bubbling over top about H1B visas that will get ugly very quickly, if the Trump administration isn’t ready for it. Democrats won’t help, they’ll try to make things worse because that will help them.
The incoming President has to realize he’s already a lame duck. He has a year, at the most, of political capital to push for big changes he campaigned on, then the mid-term campaigning starts. Once that happens, nothing major is going to get done legislatively – that just the nature of the beast. If Republicans hold the House and Senate, or even expand, he gets another year of getting things done before the 2028 cycle starts up.
Time is of the essence here. Someone in the incoming administration needs to step up and break up this gathering storm between Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Elon Musk and the rest of MAGA before it gets out of control and derails Trump II.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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