How many H1B people getting laid off and need to leave the united states?
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I was in college in the early 80’s. The classes had mostly American students in engineering in both graduate and undergraduate. There were small numbers of Indians and Chinese. When the H-1B influx started things reversed. Indians and Chinese became the majority in graduate schools and the number of Americans reduced especially in graduate school. The Internet bubble of 2000 made things worse because the companies laid off Americans and kept the H-1Bs further reducing the incentive for Americans to go into engineering.
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The inaccuracy in these comments it’s spectacular
Please remember that H1B was established under George Bush Senior. Many in the US barely had a college education at that time, so H1Bs were absolutely needed. Some of the most brilliant and hardworking H1Bs were the result of that original program with many Indians who deserved it, with the vast majority of them educated right here in America.
Now H1Bs are mostly here to undermine the American worker. Majority are mediocre coders who look down on Americans as being lazy and entitled. India is the most populous nation now, and the US is the prize they are aiming for. US has become like The Hunger Games for many of these H1Bs: not a place to contribute to and thank the generosity of a nation that has given them so much, but a place to eliminate their competition. Sundar and Satya have certainly taken steps in that direction.
Our lovely president let them to switch from H1b to B1/B2, so that they can stay 6 more months for the job searching.
If nothing after switching, then switch to F1 to study another Master/PhD.
Other option is going to Canada, everything is free up there.
Not enough.