How can what you're saying be true if Elon Musk says we need more H1Bs because there is a labor shortage?
"Tesla workers said that many employees let go were more senior engineers with higher compensation and they have been replaced with junior engineers from foreign countries at a lower pay."
https://electrek.co/2024/12/30/tesla-replaced-laid-off-us-wo...
One of the biggest issues with H1Bs is the fact that it reduces the employee's ability to change jobs and thus reduces their bargaining power for wages and thus depresses the wages across the board over time. That seems to be the main driving force for Musk behind the bluster around labor shortages.
I've worked with a few folks on H1Bs and they've all been paid significantly less than I have in the exact same role. Less base and less RSUs.
It dovetails nicely into their desire to slash education for Americans
Once we deport all the "illegal" immigrants, the MAGA folk can pick fruit in Florida while the H1B's work at Amazon for pennies on the dollar I suppose
Some jobs are unworthy for Dutch people. Your Dutch nationality protects you from slavery. For this there are immigrants.
The second reason is that we have a lot of people doing bullshit jobs in climate controlled offices but nobody wants to do physical labour.