U.S. tech firms — Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple — were the top 10 employers of H-1B recipients in 2024.
- Amazon workers bagged the highest number of H-1B visas every year between 2020 and 2024.
- U.S. companies have grown exponentially and need more IT talent.
- Indian IT firms have scaled back H-1B filings amid increased scrutiny.
Ok, no great loss. If they really want to keep hiring, nothing stops them from opening an office where the candidates are. They are multinational companies after all.
They’re already doing that. Unless they do something about outsourcing this is a meaningless policy.
Exactly, when jobs get outsourced all that money leaves the country and doesn’t come back, Asia isn’t buying American goods all that much. China is pretty strict about preventing foreign companies from operating in China and India doesn’t allow foreign companies to directly do business in India. They have to spin off a profit sharing venture with a local company, that’s like 2 billion people right there and now with Trump antagonizing western allies, even Europeans are looking to move away from American businesses.
If they do that, then they can’t threaten them with deportation.
I was going to say this is good for Canada, but part of the draw to bring engineers here is the path to the H1B. If there is no H1B end-game, maybe they won’t bring them to Canada either.
That said, we have some sizeable offices already established here, so maybe there is still incentive.
“H-1B crackdown”? They wanted more H-1B people because it’s essentially slave labor, especially now that deportations are ramped up.
If it weren’t for H-1B, Musk would have been left with no staff for Twitter.
This is some weird doublespeak because make no mistake, Trump and Musk are only going to try to increase H-1B labor.
This honestly is probably the best wedge issue between Musk and the MAGA right.
We need to keep pushing them to fight each other.
Now they’ll just hire more offshore instead.
GOOD
Isn’t this President Musk’s baby? This will never happen.
It’s the high tech higher money version of taking advantage of migrant workers. It’s like legal indentured service for a visa, and you can bypass some of those pesky labor laws.
I recommend you completely end the program. Time for the tech bros to suffer some financial pain as well.
Which tech bros are you talking about? Regular workers? Or do you mean the rich fucks like Zuckerberg?
I assure you no matter what happens the billionaires won’t feel any pain.
And who do you think will suffer when they start outsourcing jobs, it certainly won’t be the rich people running this country. Attacking legal immigrants is meaningless unless they pass laws prevent jobs from getting outsourced and good luck with that
He won’t. Musk needs them
This will hit FedEx hard. The vast majority of their IT staff are H1B. They’ve built and empire on the back of these folks.
I don’t think it’s a great article. They mention January 17 rule changes without mentioning Biden was still in office. But they do talk about opposing views of Miller and Musk and Trump’s waffling.
I don’t think many of the commenters so far have read the article.
I hope it does hurt them.
Fine they can open offices elsewhere, but that’s expense and time and complication. They need to hurt for bending the knee because that’s the only way they learn to fucking stop.
Didn’t they say they wanted the opposite of an H1—B crackdown? I’m pretty sure they already said they want more H1-Bs
Fuck knows what these morons want these days other than sowing chaos and stealing even more control and wealth away from the working class
