🚨 AMERICAN STUDENTS ARE WALKING AWAY FROM COMPUTER SCIENCE. And universities are paying the price. A new report from The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals: • Oregon State lost nearly 1,000 computer science students in ONE YEAR. • CS enrollment plunged 23%. • Online CS enrollment dropped 30%. • The decline contributed to a $19 MILLION budget shortfall. • Nationwide, four-year college CS enrollment fell more than 8%. For decades, Americans were told to study computer science because that’s where the jobs were. Now graduates are struggling to find work, companies are moving technology jobs overseas, and AI is threatening entry-level opportunities. Yet employers continue sponsoring H-1B workers and recruiting through OPT. Here’s the question nobody seems willing to answer: If American students are abandoning computer science because they’re worried about finding jobs, where exactly is the shortage of American tech talent? chronicle.com/article/the-co…

The Tech Job Market has been in a deep jobs recession since 2023. Firms max out on cheaper indentured H-1B and OPT to substitute for Americans. Can’t compare high skilled unemployment rates to HS dropouts. Compare to like occs Foreign guestworkers undercut job opportunities, wages, and working conditions for Americans.

Get rid of these programs that bring in foreign workers at the expense of young Americans. We stopped H-1Bs at our universities in Florida and other states should follow suit.

The tech job market is collapsing for young grads Yet universities continue to lobby to flood the job market with OPT and H-1B entry-level workers to undercut their own grads chronicle.com/article/the-co…

For decades, American Workers have been forced to train their foreign worker replacements—all because companies abused the H-1B program. Enough is enough. Under @POTUS’ leadership, Project Firewall is bringing this to an end and ensuring Americans come FIRST.

Congress Is Fully Aware of Problems in the H-1B program, but Doesn’t Want To Offend Big Tech cis.org/Miano/Congress-Fully… via @CIS_org

Professors often describe H-1B workers as "indentured" These scholars talk to real H1B workers to id their working conditions Here's one example from Dr. Roli Varma of UNM spa.unm.edu/about/people/rol…

Remember when Bill Gates told Congress that every H-1B Microsoft hired created FOUR jobs for Americans? The claim is absurd.

John is absolutely on point here The H-1B Industrial Complex is trying to bamboozle you with a fake fix Their think tank servants launder the nonsense Congressional staffers are overworked and easily fooled by lobbyists

newsweek.com/h1b-visa-salary… Raise the $60,000 value in H-1B DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. They could raise it to $600,000,000,000,000,000 and it would still do nothing. The lobbyists who wrote this are 12 steps ahead.

In 2023, the Biden administration was asked by a bipartisan group of Congresspersons to change the “dates for filing” date on the October 2023 visa bulletin to “current” so that the high skilled workers of America could change jobs and be shielded from deportation that might come from a future administration. The tech companies went to the White House and strongly opposed this proposal. Had this proposal been enacted, there would have been no basis for this DOL investigation because no one would have been on H-1B visas anymore.

Ron Hira from Howard University: "You can't rely on moral shaming as a substitute for law. You have to fix the #H1BVisa program."

Good discussion yesterday on Computer Talk with Tab Computer Services on WTIC in Hartford CT

Ron Hira - H1B Expert [LinkedIn Profile] linkedin.com/in/ron-hira-214…