It always amazes me how Americans picture the companies doing "H1B" as evil and exploitative. But in reality it's only an opinion that people not using them have.
Any person using an h1b will tell you how happy they are of having it. Its they alternative/escape to their country's reality. But Americans having no idea what that means, are fast to dismiss it.
Reminds me of the comments about China workers working and living in Foxconn or similar manufacturing jobs: everybody was quick to judge how "bad" the conditions are there, while in reality the increase of quality of life for a lot of them was huge compared to their previous life in their rural towns.
As a Mexican living in Mexico I've seen some of those realities, and I'm sure most of the people that go to the USA from Mexico on a TN or h1b visa had it way tougher here.
People who express concern about H1-B "slaves" and evil exploitation are not doing so out of a genuine interest for the well being of immigrants. They are doing so out of fear that those immigrants are taking away jobs that they feel entitled to.
I'm not American and know how great it feels to come to the US. I also know the feeling of getting citizenship and the freedom it gives me. I also know that many of my Indian friends will never see that privilege because of how long they would have to wait before they get a greencard.
I'm advocating for a better path to citizenship that's more reasonable than this insane system of H1B lottery and greencard waitlists that we have currently. I'm not sure why that's such a divisive position.
> I also know that many of my Indian friends will never see that privilege because of how long they would have to wait before they get a greencard.
There's A LOT of Mexicans that go to the US under a TN Visa which will NEVER have that privilege due to the nature of that Visa. They are still very very happy to have the visa and work there.
Any person using an h1b will tell you how happy they are of having it. Its they alternative/escape to their country's reality. But Americans having no idea what that means, are fast to dismiss it.
Reminds me of the comments about China workers working and living in Foxconn or similar manufacturing jobs: everybody was quick to judge how "bad" the conditions are there, while in reality the increase of quality of life for a lot of them was huge compared to their previous life in their rural towns.
As a Mexican living in Mexico I've seen some of those realities, and I'm sure most of the people that go to the USA from Mexico on a TN or h1b visa had it way tougher here.