I think H1B visas for programmers and engineers should be FROZEN for 5 years.
AI is going to be transforming both the programming world and many engineering roles. As a result, I believe there are going to be more software people dumped on the market over the next 5 years than we had after Y2k. Unfortunately, most of these folks are going to be US Citizens rather than H1B visa holders, for reasons I alluded to earlier. Congress should block all further H1B hires and demand companies spend that money on retraining their existing US workers rather than dump them into a rapidly shrinking job market and replacing them with foreigners. Unfortunately, most of the 25 wealthiest billionaires in America also happen to run companies that have huge staffs of software and hardware engineers. So given the current political climate, what’s the likelihood that there will be any significant change in current policies? -David Schwartz --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
