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They can, which is why many companies do the bare minimum malicious compliance to claim thet they attempted to hire Americans for these jobs. Things like ads in the local newspaper that 99% of qualified Americans will never see:

https://www.newsweek.com/h1b-job-ads-green-cards-targeted-im...

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Those newspaper tech job ads have been going on for at least the last... 20 years. When you see those, the company already has the role filled, they just need a justification for the visa. "We tried to find a US worker but failed!" Which honestly may or may not be true, I think the ad is just standard procedure at this point.

Fraud and dishonesty is the SOP. Whole thing needs to be burned down.

If you are willing to discuss and argue with arguments, I can prove that the whole critique of H1B is nothing more than racism, hatred, and bigotry, from the people who are worst and least qualified to talk about the subject

Surely the malicious compliant job ads are proof positive that everything is above board.

job ads in local paper are requirement by the DOL.

it is a goodwill compliance, not malicious. You are again just being racist and uneducated about the subject and reasons for that requirement

We have very different ideas of what 'goodwill' looks like.

have you considered asking DOL (staffed by White Americans) and Congress (staffed by White Americans) why they have that requirement, instead of blaming foreigners ?

Why do you assume everyone who works for the government is white?

Even better, why do they think everyone in the government is working for the interests of Americans and not corporations?

I'm not assuming, I am speaking from knowledge. Congress has always been mostly white, as do DOL leaders, this is especially true for current administration

So your position is that it's 'white people's fault'?

the newspaper ad is not for H1B, it is for PERM process, which is different.

Second, the local newspaper requirement is created by the Dept of Labor itself, specifically to protect local workers in the area where Labor Market Test is being done!!!

It is not malicious compliance by firms, it is goodwill compliance by firms, to whatever DOL requires them to do. Dont like it? ask your DOL why.

Third, paper ads create audit trail that DOL wants, they dont recognize e-boards like linkedin/indeed as their audit trail is considered "soft"

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