Ron Hira retweeted
DOL’s H-1B wage rule has still not been finalized, more than five months after the public comment period closed.
Here’s why it matters. Today, employers can pay entry-level H-1B workers at a wage set below what 83% of U.S. workers in the same occupation earn.
The proposed rule would raise that threshold, requiring employers to pay more. It’s a step in the right direction, although setting the minimum at the 75th percentile would do much more to protect U.S. tech workers, and the proposed rule still has the entry level wage set below the median level.
Five months is long enough. Finalize implementing the rule.
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Ron Hira retweeted
"H‑1B workers are legally tied to a single employer, who alone controls their visa. Termination means immediate loss of legal status, which gives employers extraordinary leverage—far beyond what they hold over American workers or green card holders."
Commonplace: Microsoft’s H-1B Double-Speak - After years of talk, Big Tech is finally facing consequences for visa abuse mag.commonplace.org/p/ron-hi…
How can a company profess a severe labor-shortage requiring thousands of foreign workers while at the same time laying off thousands of Americans with similar or better skills?
That's the question @VP Vance asked Microsoft... He's not alone.
Senators @ChuckGrassley & @SenatorDurbin sent a letter to top H‑1B employers Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Apple: “At the same time you have been laying off your employees, you have been filing H‑1B visa petitions for [thousands of] foreign workers… With all of the homegrown American talent relegated to the sidelines, we find it hard to believe that [you] cannot find qualified American tech workers to fill these positions.”
It's remarkable that no journalist has challenged Big Tech to provide the receipts.
mag.commonplace.org/p/ron-hi…
Ron Hira retweeted
My piece for @commonplc on Microsoft’s H-1B Double-Speak: Execs Bill Gates & Brad Smith told Congress they need H1B workers to address labor shortages
Microsoft’s own visa filings reveal its labor-shortage claim to be little more than a smokescreen
@VP keep challenging it
"It strains credulity to suggest that none of Microsoft’s 10,000 laid‑off employees—or the more than 100,000 Americans graduating annually with computer science degrees into a labor market where their cohort faces a recession-level 7% unemployment rate—were qualified or trainable for the jobs it filled instead with foreigners." @ronhira on why the Trump admin is right to crack down on Microsoft for the company's abuse of the H-1B system.
Ron Hira retweeted
"Why was a company professing a severe shortage requiring thousands of foreign workers while at the same time dismissing thousands of Americans with similar or better skills?"
@ronhira explains Microsoft's abuse of the H-1B program, and what the Trump administration is doing in response to protect American workers.
My piece for @commonplc on Microsoft’s H-1B Double-Speak: Execs Bill Gates & Brad Smith told Congress they need H1B workers to address labor shortages
Microsoft’s own visa filings reveal its labor-shortage claim to be little more than a smokescreen
@VP keep challenging it
"It strains credulity to suggest that none of Microsoft’s 10,000 laid‑off employees—or the more than 100,000 Americans graduating annually with computer science degrees into a labor market where their cohort faces a recession-level 7% unemployment rate—were qualified or trainable for the jobs it filled instead with foreigners." @ronhira on why the Trump admin is right to crack down on Microsoft for the company's abuse of the H-1B system.
Ron Hira retweeted
"It strains credulity to suggest that none of Microsoft’s 10,000 laid‑off employees—or the more than 100,000 Americans graduating annually with computer science degrees into a labor market where their cohort faces a recession-level 7% unemployment rate—were qualified or trainable for the jobs it filled instead with foreigners." @ronhira on why the Trump admin is right to crack down on Microsoft for the company's abuse of the H-1B system.
Prevailing Wage is a ridiculously low $46,218
Entry-level accountants get $80,000
This UF LCA encapsulates the disgraceful @USDOL H-1B rules
Rigs H1B against American workers & students and underpays foreign workers
The University of Florida (@UF) just filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Financial Analyst
Worksite: 33 Tigert Hall, Gainesville, Florida
Salary: $64,928
Posting date: October 26, 2026
Requested employment period: February 2, 2027–February 1, 2030
Ron Hira retweeted
🚨 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 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…
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.
Ron Hira retweeted
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…
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…
Ron Hira retweeted
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.
Ron Hira retweeted
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…
