Reply #4: Legal, but in my opinion, immoral [View All]

[LiberalEsto]

My husband works in the IT industry. We know a huge number of people who've been laid off and replaced by H1-B workers (who are supposed to be paid the same, but the companies finagle the job descriptions and get away with paying them much less) over the years. He worked at Fannie Mae for 17 years, and they've gotten rid of almost all the American IT people and replaced them with H1-Bs.

Meanwhile the people who've been laid off are unable to find IT work. Many of these people borrowed heavily to put themselves through college, majoring in computer science. They end up, like my brother-in-law, stocking shelves at department stores or other poorly paying jobs.

Almost nobody going to college in recent years majors in computer science. There's no point putting yourself in hock with tens of thousands in student loans, and being unable to pay them back because the companies are only hiring cheap foreign IT workers.

How is it fair to give these big companies all kinds of tax breaks using OUR tax money, and then let them turn around and spit in our faces by bringing in cheap foreign workers and leaving American IT professionals struggling to find jobs that pay the bills?

I would love to do away with H1-B visas entirely, but failing that, any company that replaces American workers with foreign workers should be prohibited from benefiting off the labor of American workers' tax dollars.