Senator Eric Schmitt expressed alarm at the latest official report on H-1B approvals for fiscal year 2025, which puts India at the top of the list with 283,772 approvals, followed by China with 49,161 approvals. “While Washington is complacent, American workers are being told to ‘upskill’ or be replaced by H-1B employees. The entire system is designed to allow companies to take advantage of the law. At the expense of American graduates and workers,” the senator wrote in a report shared. Schmidt blamed big tech companies, saying they encourage this disgraceful practice while laying off American workers.“A former visa officer in India shared a dirty secret: 70-90% of Indian applicants use false credentials to cheat the system. Indian workers then hire their own workers while eliminating American jobs. Once they come in, they stay, bring more, and American talent is left out,” Schmutt upped the ante, citing an earlier interview with U.S. diplomat Marwash Siddiqui.
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Regarding China’s H-1B, Schmidt said that Chinese people are flooding into sensitive technology positions, and the CCP is using them to steal American intellectual property and spy on American companies. “Why on earth do the American people have to lose their jobs to fund the Chinese Communist Party’s criminal behavior?”Immigrant entrepreneur James Blunt breaks down the numbers and the panic, saying “for a trillion-dollar economy, it’s pretty low.” “So we went from ‘millions pouring in’ to about 400,000 approvals… about 70% of which were renewals of people who were already here. That’s pretty low for a trillion-dollar economy. If that argument required inflated numbers to work, it probably wasn’t a strong argument in the first place. Thanks for posting the actual data, though, it tells a very different story,” Blunt said in reply to Schmidt’s post, adding that the number of H-1B approvals in India was like some high numbers. The school’s talent value and “not flooding the market”.