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The Replacements: How US Helps Foreign Workers Take American Jobs

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ements_how_us_policy_helps_foreign_workers_take_american_jobs_1183978.html



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Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer who can’t find a job, considers herself a victim of an H-1B visa program run amok.

Her story, a U.S. native replaced by a foreign-born employee who is willing to work at a significantly lower wage, has become commonplace, particularly in the tech industry. Adding insult to injury, she says, her CEO, who hails from India, told her to train the man he selected to replace her before laying her off.

Despite stints at Google and Cisco and two years of job hunting, Mary can no longer compete in a job market saturated with foreign-born H-1B visa holders. “I had experience. I should have walked right into these corporate jobs, but I didn't. Why? Because Silicon Valley is flooded with people who work for two-thirds of the price, or even half price,” said Mary, who asked to be identified only by her first name.
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Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer, considers herself a victim of the H-1B visa program.
RCI




Yeah... That's a fun one, isn't it?

Being told to train your replacement.


Been there, done that.


Consider yourself lucky that your talents allowed you to stay employed this long in the tech sector, and that you couldn't just simply be replaced by people working halfway around the globe. At least your skills required a warm body here to do whatever it was that you were doing.

Hope you've been saving your money lady. At your age, assuming that you don't really have any other marketable skills, it's pretty much WalMart greeter from here. It's time for you to downsize and move into a shittier neighborhood too if you weren't being good with your money before.

My only other advice is don't expect anybody to cry for you.

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Sunday, May 24, 2026 6:26 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Learn to Code, They Said

https://prospect.org/2026/05/23/learn-to-code-they-said-ai-programming
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I look forward to the day that anyone who ever said those words is living out on the streets.

Won't be long now...



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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.

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