alt Hacker Newswhy is ycombinator promoting immigration thru H1B when so many US born CS grads are finding it hard to get job. In 2023, American colleges graduated 134,153 citizens or green card holders with bachelor's or master's degrees in computer science. That same year, our federal government handed out work permits to at least 110,098 foreign workers in computer occupations through just three major guest worker programs. That's equal to 82% of our graduating class who are guaranteed jobs even before any Americans walk across the stage for their diploma. https://ifspp.substack.com/p/data-on-how-america-sold-out-it...
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It's disgusting.
Many VC firms outside of YC flagrantly promote what is basically fraud. There are literally YC companies that provide pseudo visa fraud as a service.
Following the law and having respect for the immigration system is simply seen as an "inconvenient challenge" to these people.
I myself am a person of color, but in the cohort I was in (of 30) maybe three individuals were native born Americans of any race. The rest were exclusively Canadian immigrants largely from India and China (not actually born in Canada). It's also quite common in the US for people to work on visitor VISA's while applying for O1s.
To name a few...
https://extraordinary.com/ (promulgated by https://x.com/0xsigil?lang=en)
That's not an apples to apples comparison. You don't know if the foreign workers were senior-level employees, for example, or whether there were specialized requirements they might have been hired against that entry-level grads won't qualify for.
I agree there should be more entry-level roles. But this is not an indictment of the system. You should ask what percentage of those foreign workers were hired into entry-level roles.