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)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gale

https://www.deel.com/paid-lp/immigration/