Wednesday, June 04, 2025

The Tech Recruitment Ruse That Has Avoided Trump's Crackdown on Immigration

It's a tough time for the rank-and-file tech worker or computer science graduate looking for a job. The Silicon Valley giants have laid off tens of thousands in the past couple years. The longstanding threat of offshoring persists, while the new threat of AI looms.

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NEW: Every Sunday, newspapers are full of ads for tech jobs that aren't really looking for applicants. They reveal an aspect of U.S. immigration law that hurts both domestic and foreign workers -- yet has endured for decades.

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-- ProPublica (@propublica.org) June 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM

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BUT BUT BUT TARIFFS FIXED EVERYTHING!!!

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-04 11:14 AM

Those jobs are supposed to be a last resort for employers who can't find American applicants who have the required educations to fill these positions;. So hey, ley's destroy the Dept. of Education and any financial assistance needed by Americans to get the educations required. This is the educational plan designed by a person born rich who never had to qualify for any position he has ever held in his life with the expected disastrous results of multiple bankruptcies in all sorts of failed enterprises he ran into the ground. Basically, his message to aspiring students struggling to be educated is "you should have been born rich!"

#2 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-04 11:32 AM

I remember during a visit to a friend in Manhattan back in 2008, he told me firms in the financial district had laid off thousands of Americans and replaced them with imported Indian H1-B workers who they could pay a fraction to.

All so the rich could get richer.

#3 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-06-04 11:53 AM

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