Now that the US needs Factory workers and finds itself with a shortage of “labor” the truth about STEM workers … the true reason for all of those H1B Worker visas which can now be admitted by the propaganda media … Is that he H1b visa system was only ever a strategy to suppress wages in the tech sector.

In a 2017 DHS Report it was found that H-1B visa holders are paid far below-average wages. 2.6 Million American IT workers have been replaced by H-1B immigrants in the last decade. The leftist media said for years that the H1b program wouldn’t displace American workers.

Since the 2017 data displayed the massive devastating impact that the H1b program has actually had on American tech workers, the left and the globalists once again “changed the narrative” and claimed that American workers are far too stupid,  too “entitled”, too drugged out to work, too uneducated or too unreliable to do those jobs.

The truth is that the H1b visa program has been bastardized into an Tech Sector wage suppression system. Its a racket where only 20 outsourcing companies control 37% of all H-1B Visas, and pay those indentured servant workers only a fraction of what would be their market salaries were it not for the H1b program keeping US Tech Worker wages suppressed.

Big tech and data companies keep saying that there’s a shortage of “Qualified” engineers in the US. A claim which also happens to be an out and out lie.

What these big companies and their lobbyists actually saying, is that there’s a shortage of “Low Wage” engineers living in the US that are not only willing to work for the subsistence wages that these companies would prefer to pay, but that they prefer to hire employees whom are also not entitled to the protections afforded by US Labor laws, and that the companies don’t have to offer the same level of health care and employee entitlements and benefits … responsibilities those tech companies would be required to account for when hiring US workers.

99% of all H1b visas simply import people with mediocre skills which can already be easily found in abundance among the US worker pool, but who will work for a vastly reduced salary, and aren’t entitled to the benefits, employment protections or labor law of American workers.

The H1b program should be eliminated by the Trump administration entirely.

The STEM Glut

An increasing number of insiders say, contrary to the multitude of studies and seminars we’ve slogged through, that there is not a shortage of Science Technology and Engineering Majors (STEM) but a glut. “It turns out that new PhDs in science have a hard time getting a job like their mentor’s: tenured faculty in a research university,” John Staddon a Professor of Psychology and Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at Duke University writes in an essay distributed by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. “Fifty years ago, in my own area of experimental psychology, things were very different.”“Postgraduates, after four years of college, were able to get their PhDs in four or five years. They usually got a tenure-track job at a reasonable university right after graduating. Not now, though. An oversupply of nascent scientists has been the rule since at least 2010 and not just in the U.S. The Economist, in an article called ‘The Disposable Academic,’ wrote that ‘universities have discovered that PhD students are cheap, highly motivated and disposable labour.’”

Source: The STEM Glut

Before anyone gets on their high horse and talks about how this article is only in reference to Academic researchers, remember that if you have been paying attention to the IEEE reports there have been more STEM graduates than non academic tech sector jobs for many years. Petroleum engineers are still currently in high demand.