@LayoffAI HTC is also the primary provider of IT for State Farm Insurance. So many departments are Indian run at this point and to run basic services that used to go to computer science college grads who can no longer get entry level jobs now.
This one is heartbreaking.
He spent 25 YEARS at Adobe.
Senior Software Quality Engineer.
More than 15 years of quality engineering experience.
Laid off in August 2025.
Then he spent more than a year looking for another job in tech.
Applications filtered out.
Recruiters ghosted him.
Interviews that never happened.
Eventually, he gave up.
His next career?
Driving a school bus.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with driving a school bus. It’s important, honest work.
But something is deeply broken when an American with 25 years at one of the world’s premier software companies can’t find another job in tech while we’re simultaneously told America has such a shortage of tech talent that employers need hundreds of thousands of foreign-worker positions.
This is what gets lost in the H-1B debate.
These aren’t statistics.
They’re people.
Before we search the world for another tech worker, shouldn’t Americans like him at least get a fair shot?
Dear President H. W. Bush and Senator Kennedy,
I am writing as a recent STEM graduate who finished at the top of my class.
I did everything that was asked of me. High grades. Strong projects. Internships when I could get them. It was the promise for the few with the ability to complete this coursework. I believed the degree would open doors.
It has not.
I have gone through interview after interview with no offer. At the same time, many of the foreign students I studied alongside already had jobs waiting for them before they even graduated. Some received offers during their junior year. I am still sending out applications and receiving short impersonal rejections or silence.
You both helped create the H-1B program with the promise that it would fill temporary skill gaps and bring the best talent to America. That is not what I am seeing.
What I am seeing is a system that often prefers workers who arrive with sponsorship already arranged while American graduates who trained here are left competing for fewer and fewer open seats. The shortage never seemed to close. The opportunities for people like me only got tighter.
You both will never sit in the position I am in, watching classmates from other countries move into roles while I keep hearing that the market is competitive. Was this the plan from the start or were you too ignorant to understand?
The harm is quiet and personal. It lands on students who did the work and still cannot find a place in the profession they prepared for.
That is the part of the promise that did not come true.
Sincerely,
A top graduate still looking for work in my field
INDIAN H1Bs are DESTROYING an ENTIRE GENERATION of AMERICAN ENGINEERS.
Our GRADS can't get jobs. American professionals get replaced for Indians and CAN’T GET JOBS.
Why are the POLITICIANS SILENT?
https://t.co/pCLrpIg4PI
🚨 UPDATE: A Trump-appointed judge has just declared discounted tuition for illegal aliens UNCONSTITUTIONAL in Illinois, striking down Democrats' program giving in-state tuition to illegals
BIG WIN! JB Pritzker is furious! 🔥
ZERO states should be allowed to discriminate against citizens for illegals. Americans first, ALWAYS
Big Tech, AI companies, hospitals, and other corporations have abused the H-1B visa program for YEARS!
Instead of hiring Americans, they import cheaper foreign labor and the. tell us there’s a “worker shortage.”
I introduced the EXILE Act to ELIMINATE the H-1B visa program.
America has the best workers in the world and we should utilize them! 🇺🇸
The company from India known as “IBM” had a huge negative day after issuing a Q2 warning on earnings.
The CEO from India has been firing all of the Americans as quickly as he can and shifted jobs to his family and friends in India. 140,000+ jobs now in India, compared to about 40,000 remaining in the USA.
It’s no surprise that the company is failing dramatically.
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