Edits | October, 2025
From an American point of view, the following is the most logical statement published on the website of “The White House and of the “President of the United States. It protects that country’s integrity and works for the development of its citizens. These paragraphs are essential to read before going forward:
“The number of foreign STEM workers in the United States has more than doubled between 2000 and 2019, increasing from 1.2 million to almost 2.5 million, while overall STEM employment has only increased 44.5 percent during that time. Among computer and math occupations, the foreign share of the workforce grew from 17.7 percent in 2000 to 26.1 percent in 2019. And the key facilitator for this influx of foreign STEM labor has been the abuse of the H-1B visa.
“To take advantage of artificially low labor costs incentivized by the program, companies close their IT divisions, fire their American staff, and outsource IT jobs to lower-paid foreign workers.
“Reports also indicate that many American tech companies have laid off their qualified and highly skilled American workers and simultaneously hired thousands of H-1B workers. One software company was approved for over 5,000 H-1B workers in FY 2025; around the same time, it announced a series of layoffs totaling more than 15,000 employees. Another IT firm was approved for nearly 1,700 H-1B workers in FY 2025; it announced it was laying off 2,400 American workers in Oregon in July. A third company has reduced its workforce by approximately 27,000 American workers since 2022, while being approved for over 25,000 H-1B workers since FY 2022. A fourth company reportedly eliminated 1,000 jobs in February; it was approved for over 1,100 H-1B workers for FY 2025.
“Sec. 4. Amending the Prevailing Wage Levels. (a) The Secretary of Labor shall initiate a rulemaking to revise the prevailing wage levels to levels consistent with the policy goals of this proclamation consistent with section 212(n) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1182(n).
(b) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall initiate a rulemaking to prioritize the admission as nonimmigrants of high-skilled and high-paid aliens, consistent with sections 101, 212, and 214 of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1101, 1182, and 1184.
The problem with America is not the immigrant workers, but it is the American workers and students. They are not good enough anymore to work on large-scale projects which require an insane amount of manhours simply because the tasks will require so many manhours of work. For places like India and China the students and the working community is used to working long hours without taking breaks. That has been the culture of the country, and nobody complains much. Although Prez Donald Trump may be looking at statistics, but he may not understand the problem of drugs, students roaming like zombies, the social security system which securities wages for unemployed, the pension fund schemes, etc, which are privy to a born US citizen- and this makes them not to work very hard.
It has long been established in the innovation world that most of the innovation comes from the white Americans, the people who have migrated from Europe, and have come to America, studied there and then innovated in tech or in living. White Americans are also the people who get the first funding which is far in excess of anybody who is brown, black or an immigrant. That has been the funding pattern of America – and these people recognize that they would want workers, and their endeavor is not to create a utopian state. The ground reality of what the websites of the White House and that of the President mention are correct but they do not solve the problem of America being great. America is big, great and runs most of the processes of the new world only because it can harbour immigrant workers to work on concepts which are developed in America. These concepts cannot see the light of day unless there are workers who are working on them regardless of the manhours. A US worker will not work for so long, as much as a Chinese or an Indian word. We don’t have a limit on the number of hours being put on a job, and we do not demand rights.
Also, the so-called STEM is basically a stronghold of Indians and Chinese, who are apt at math from a very young age, and that quotient sans any provision of law. Hence why is the new fee of H1B visa being exempt out for medical doctors?
Going forward, the restrictions posed by the immigration department on the aliens to the US, and the new visa fee for H1B, which presently is $100,000 on the initial application, will determine what America can build further.
It is not easy to outsource critical technology decisions out of the US, where the development is happening for a certain product or a service. With quantum computers coming in and major shift in technology as we build chips to sub-nano levels, and projects like Stargate, being developed as very large AI data farms, to have them manned by just Americans not ready work 24×7, and that these projects can be run only by an International citizenship contribution due to their complexity and being made available plant-wide, the H1-B visa protection will do a lot of harm to the US industry.
Trump’s problem is a longer version. Since he is not a man of technology and basically in real estate, his main philosophy remains build and sell, and book a profit which is not more than 2 to 5 years of time for any real estate project nowadays. He is not thinking about technology being built over a period of generation. And probably it is not his job. America has been built by the Indians and Chinese and many other people who have gone there labored, studied, got unemployed and worked on concepts which were developed by the white Americans. If it is left the same way, probably America will remain great, rather than a demeanor of making it great again.
Sources for the quoted paras are:
CA Divesh Nath
Editor
Woman’s Era
LinkedIn: Divesh Nath