Today, the Valley has been overrun by H1Bs from India and Pakistan that refuse to work with other ethnic groups. Additionally, Indian management has taken over the best companies in the valley that now just want to hire H1Bs from India. The H1Bs that came to the valley from India 15-20 years ago were really sharp. Yet, today, the H1Bs coming from India are subpar to the American standard and are mostly a burden to the workplace. Today, High Tech wages are suppressed, Real Estate and Rents continue to rise, and the highest skilled tech workers in the valley have now been deemed too expensive and therefore obsolete. Everything that made the Valley wonderful and worthwhile is now gone. We've given the best jobs in the world to the H1B, allowed the H1B to reside in the best geographic location in the world, and now the highest skilled workers in the world have been disparaged and displaced by the H1B over cost rather than skill. American High Tech workers are not being put first. In fact, they are being put last. American High Tech workers are being treated as third class illiterate felons while the H1B is being treated as a first class citizen that does not hold citizenship. If you are an American Citizen and have been displaced by an H1B - then it is time to write to your congressmen and ask for the denial of any further work visas to the country.
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US has the worst educational system in the world!!
Result is electing people like Trump and Hillary to the highest office in the land!!!
H-1B visa is what has saved this country all these years!!!
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I applaud you, Sir! Your editorial is certainly worthy for the Wall Street Journal. The word, "overrun", is the key. It's one thing to hire an H1B with a specific goal in mind which would profit the company. It's no longer like that. Now the door is busted off it's hinges and H1Bs are flooding America. So sad that Corporate America has made this decision. Most H1Bs are not qualified for the positions they fill.
Excellent take on the situation. Silicon Valley is in demise, and as it goes, so goes America.