Disabled technical workers say that H-1B suppression will not help them get a job

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. Labor reports show a sluggish job market in general, with renting in recent months, hitting white collar and technical workers. (Reuters) Summary Many say that their biggest problems are a poor domestic labor market, the rise of AI and a large number of displaced people looking for similar roles. The Trump administration says it wants to create more opportunities for US workers. A new obstacle for foreign workers can provide a few opportunities for US technical workers, who face a bad job market for months. But many don’t expect much help. The Trump administration said last week it would now cost $ 100,000 to apply for new H-1B visas, which are especially used for technical work, which are dominated by workers from India and deliver a large workforce for many technical Titans, including Amazon.com. The Trump administration’s declared goal: to open more opportunities for US workers. The Wall Street Journal spoke to a recently discharged dozen technical employees, most of whom are still looking for work. Most said their biggest problems are a poor domestic labor market, the rise of artificial intelligence and a large amount of displaced people looking for similar roles. Some said the new visa fees could lower competition, but others said their H-1B colleagues helped technical companies thrive, which could lead to more work. “I’ve been unemployed for four months, but it’s not as if I don’t get interviews because of the H-1B labor force,” said Suzanne Carroll, 54 years old, who lost her IT risk and compliance work earlier this year. Recent layoffs have also hit H-1B workers hard. She said, “We are all influenced.” The US holds the number of new H-1B visas at 85,000 a year, but there are exceptions for employees of universities and other nonprofits. In the past financial year, the US has issued nearly 400,000 of these visas, most to cover situations such as extensions or workers who link work. Steve Bannon at the conservative political action conference earlier this year. The White House and other critics believe that the H-1B program is taking away work from US workers and is subject to abuse, including by IT outsourcing companies that enable technical enterprises to pay visa holders less for the same work. Former Trump assistant Steve Bannon called it a ‘scam to destroy the American worker’. In a poll in September by the Associated Press-Norc Center for Public Affairs Research, it was found that six out of ten Americans think that legal immigration offers great benefits for economic growth, by 16 percentage points since March 2024. Much of the most technical world’s most striking light-ranging from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to Elon Musk-H-1B Visas. Another survey earlier this year by technical staffing business Howdy.com, which asked more than 1,000 technical workers, found that 75% said that H-1B workers filled skills gaps in the workplace. One in five people in the survey said they were afraid that H-1B receivers would replace them, and a quarter said that workers with the visas were paid less. And some technical workers who are trying to find work are hopeful that Trump’s new policy will help. “I think it’s even the playing field,” says Byron Hilyard, 61, a Salem, Ore Support Engineer. He stopped a job two years ago to think that he would find another, but he is still without work and the concerned age has also limited his prospects. Graham Harris, a 25-year-old in Brooklyn, began to look beyond the technical field in April. But he also thinks that the new visual policy can alleviate some competition. “Companies will have to look for US talent,” he said. Most workers who spoke the magazine said they face much greater challenges, including discharge that has deleted more than 240,000 technical jobs since 2024, according to Layoffs.fyi, which follows the reduction of the workforce in technology. During the pandemic, many companies skipped and returned since, and the growth in AI also forced some to reconsider their staff, said Vijay Govindarajan, professor at Tuck School of Business Dartmouth College. Labor reports show a sluggish job market in general, with renting in recent months, hitting white collar and technical workers. The concerns about a poor labor market recently resulted in the first reduction of the Federal Reserve interest rate this year. “I just think companies are very conservative because of the economy,” said Juliette Gondon, 26, who lost her job at a recruitment technology start this spring. Since then, she has said that about 100 job applications have produced two interviews and no offers. Some technical leaders have priced Trump’s new H-1B fee and said it would encourage technical companies to only look for visas for high value jobs. Netflix co-founder Reeds Hastings calls it “a wonderful solution” in a post on X, with the argument that it would reduce competition for such visas and make it available for roles that truly justify it. Others said the new policy would motivate companies to do foreign work. Juliette Gondon Giovanni Peri, an economist who directs the Global Migration Center at the University of California, Davis, said research has shown that H-1B workers are brought in-of which many expertise and new perspectives bring to more innovation and job creation. His own research shows that more foreign voice workers help to lift overall wages for Americans. “I don’t even know how we would have an industry without them,” said David Belais, a 43-year-old data engineer in Portland, Ore., Who said that most colleagues were born foreign during his career. Long -time technical worker Leo Osahor, 48, said he fears that the new $ 100,000 fee will strike the startups especially, and the potential for innovation will quell and limit their access to talent. Osahor, an American citizen and former H-1B container who emigrated from Trinidad and Tobago 25 years ago, was fired from a product management track last fall, but has since established two startups. He said that the technical world welcomes foreign talent in his experience. He also said that the workforce is facing more urgent threats, especially because of the rise of AI that can encode and problem solving. “Anyone with a keyboard and mouse is at risk,” he said. Write to Te-Ping Chen on [email protected] and Lindsay Ellis on [email protected] Catch all the business news, market news, news reports and latest news updates on live currency. Download the Mint News app to get daily market updates. More topics #H-1B visas read next story