H-1B Crackdown Erodes a Texas Real Estate Boom

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In reply to DannyDuberstein • 9:12a, 6/5/26
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Tells me I'm wrong, then tells me how subpar the workers there are. Okay


The workers were NOT subpar 25 years ago. Indian students have been arriving in the US since the mid 1960s. They mostly went top US schools and were middle class and assimilated well. The are 80+ today if alive. There was a certain barrier to entry to the US. Not every POS trash could come.

Y2K issues of 1999 changed it all. CEOs got greedy and realized they could get cheap labor. I have personally heard a top VP exult "now we can get 3 engineers for the price of one!". He was a doofus for just going by superficial information without going into quality of engineers. Until 2010, it was still relatively hard for foreigners to come in. Post 2010, Indian companies like Infosys had built pipelines to land people in the 10s of 1000s. Entire engineering classrooms would be placed in the US. Americans lost their jobs.

Summary:
  • Pre 2000: 95%+ Indians who came here were of high quality and assimilated well
  • 2000- 2010: Quality Not too bad, passable
  • 2010+: Free for all, everyone's mother could be placed in America, basement level quality
The more the people you bring in, quality dips. I have worked with some exceptional people and worked with trashy people I wanted to shoot.
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In reply to DannyDuberstein • 9:16a, 6/5/26
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Fortune 50. Have seen it happen over and over again across so many teams. You have to set the bar incredibly low for anything you send there. Has to be the most simple of simple activities, and even that will have issues.


It's the fault of your Fortune 50 company. The CEO simply got greedy and contacted Infosys to ship 10000000 monkeys over "for cheap" so he could gloat to the Board (another group of low IQ doofuses). You paid peanuts you got monkeys. Your company deserved it. Ha ha.

If they had looked at quality and fired the worthless crap types, (maybe 1-5% of them), then you would be surprised at how better things can be. I know as we are going through the same thing right now. Luckily I work with just 2 engineers who are very good we've made great progress building a POC, I avoid working with the entire team as much as possible as I have to deal with the riff-raff.
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In reply to DannyDuberstein • 9:18a, 6/5/26
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DannyDuberstein said:
Fortune 50. Have seen it happen over and over again across so many teams. You have to set the bar incredibly low for anything you send there. Has to be the most simple of simple activities, and even that will have issues.


If you are an executive at a Fortune 50, then why repeat the same mistakes over and over again across so many teams?

You may be validating one of infinity ag's most constant gripes about the executives in large corporations.

Again, the data already shows its inaccurate to saw they are low IQ. How many trips have you made to India to attempt to improve on processes you outsourced to there?
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9:19a, 6/5/26
We got sidetracked.
The point is a housing crash is coming. Make what you want of it. You can buy and make money. Or complain about "smell" and what not and lose an opportunity. Your call.
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In reply to flown-the-coop • 9:20a, 6/5/26
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DannyDuberstein said:
Fortune 50. Have seen it happen over and over again across so many teams. You have to set the bar incredibly low for anything you send there. Has to be the most simple of simple activities, and even that will have issues.


If you are an executive at a Fortune 50, then why repeat the same mistakes over and over again across so many teams?

You may be validating one of infinity ag's most constant gripes about the executives in large corporations.

Again, the data already shows its inaccurate to saw they are low IQ. How many trips have you made to India to attempt to improve on processes you outsourced to there?


He unwittingly validated my point because I AM RIGHT.
And you know it too. You are a smart guy, you know I am right, though you don't want to admit it right now.

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In reply to infinity ag • 9:23a, 6/5/26
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Average IQ of a public company executive is estimated at 115 to 130. So whilst above average compared to gen pop, it's not that impressive in my opinion.

Truly intelligent people trend and 30 points higher and few corporate executives meet that mark.
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In reply to infinity ag • 9:27a, 6/5/26
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infinity ag said:
flown-the-coop said:
DannyDuberstein said:
Fortune 50. Have seen it happen over and over again across so many teams. You have to set the bar incredibly low for anything you send there. Has to be the most simple of simple activities, and even that will have issues.


If you are an executive at a Fortune 50, then why repeat the same mistakes over and over again across so many teams?

You may be validating one of infinity ag's most constant gripes about the executives in large corporations.

Again, the data already shows its inaccurate to saw they are low IQ. How many trips have you made to India to attempt to improve on processes you outsourced to there?


He unwittingly validated my point because I AM RIGHT.
And you know it too. You are a smart guy, you know I am right, though you don't want to admit it right now.


Getting back to the topic as well, you CAN be right absolutely. I think you overstate things that may be true at some level and extrapolate into something far bigger than it is. The OP is an example. The effect of any "mass exodus of Indians" or modern day trail of tears to Delhi will overall be minimal, particularly regarding housing in Texas.

There is plenty of pent-up demand out there to offset the H1-Bs. There may be some pockets of opportunity but that will be taken advantage of by folks already in the know and quite possible by H1-Bs friends who have their green cards or citizenships.
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In reply to flown-the-coop • 9:27a, 6/5/26
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Average IQ of a public company executive is estimated at 115 to 130. So whilst above average compared to gen pop, it's not that impressive in my opinion.

Truly intelligent people trend and 30 points higher and few corporate executives meet that mark.


Okay, you may be right on the number but it means nothing. Just IQ does not mean a great business leader. You need to have other attributes. Most high IQ people would be terrible business people because it needs some degree of fuzzy gray area thinking which high IQ people hate. They want result of 1 or 2, never "something in between". Besides, high IQ people have no patience to talk to low IQ people like customers.

So a CEO being slightly more intelligent than the rest of the pop is okay. The problem is not that. The problem is the greed and lack of empathy. Corporate incentives are also poorly structured to be for short term, not long term. I don't have a solution on how to fix that. A CEO can trash the entire product pipeline, fire everyone and show "cost savings" and get a big bonus. The corp suffers in 3 years and the CEO is gone.
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In reply to flown-the-coop • 9:32a, 6/5/26
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flown-the-coop said:
DannyDuberstein said:
Fortune 50. Have seen it happen over and over again across so many teams. You have to set the bar incredibly low for anything you send there. Has to be the most simple of simple activities, and even that will have issues.


If you are an executive at a Fortune 50, then why repeat the same mistakes over and over again across so many teams?

You may be validating one of infinity ag's most constant gripes about the executives in large corporations.

Again, the data already shows its inaccurate to saw they are low IQ. How many trips have you made to India to attempt to improve on processes you outsourced to there?


I am not repeating mistakes. I stopped sending work to India 6 years ago, pulled one of the teams I inherited out of there and sent the work to Mexico, and have no presence there. If I'm going to move something out, I send it to Mexico. More expensive per head, less expensive overall.

When I look for productivity (which we are constantly doing), I have a multi-step process: 1) what can we just stop doing because the business need has evolved or there is not enough value-add 2) what can we automate and get done utilizing fewer heads in the US- I try to fill my teams with folks that have a mindset of continuous learning and automating/problem-solving so we don't have to grow our team just because the business is growing or we don't always have to backfill when someone leaves, and 3) for what I can't solve with 1 and 2, is it something that makes sense to send to Mexico. India is out of the equation for what I own. That said, my teams and I do have to deal with other teams that have work there.
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In reply to flown-the-coop • 9:32a, 6/5/26
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flown-the-coop said:
DannyDuberstein said:
Fortune 50. Have seen it happen over and over again across so many teams. You have to set the bar incredibly low for anything you send there. Has to be the most simple of simple activities, and even that will have issues.


If you are an executive at a Fortune 50, then why repeat the same mistakes over and over again across so many teams?

You may be validating one of infinity ag's most constant gripes about the executives in large corporations.

Again, the data already shows its inaccurate to saw they are low IQ. How many trips have you made to India to attempt to improve on processes you outsourced to there?


"Cutting costs". I lived Danny's corporate life and he is exactly right. I have experience with both Tata and HCL - Indian conglomerates who get alot of US IT outsourcing.

I was there when we outsourced IT to India the first time. Quality plummeted and timelines soared. After about a decade of execs plying the lie that by doing so we would cut costs while improving quality and timelines, our company finally faced reality and backed out of it and near shored some functions to the western hemisphere and re-shored others.

I've been gone a few years now and my friends who are still there now tell me they have completely outsourced to India again. This time it's because they let too many Indians into leadership who sent the jobs back home - classic Indian nepotism.
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In reply to flown-the-coop • 9:34a, 6/5/26
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infinity ag said:
flown-the-coop said:
DannyDuberstein said:
Fortune 50. Have seen it happen over and over again across so many teams. You have to set the bar incredibly low for anything you send there. Has to be the most simple of simple activities, and even that will have issues.


If you are an executive at a Fortune 50, then why repeat the same mistakes over and over again across so many teams?

You may be validating one of infinity ag's most constant gripes about the executives in large corporations.

Again, the data already shows its inaccurate to saw they are low IQ. How many trips have you made to India to attempt to improve on processes you outsourced to there?


He unwittingly validated my point because I AM RIGHT.
And you know it too. You are a smart guy, you know I am right, though you don't want to admit it right now.


Getting back to the topic as well, you CAN be right absolutely. I think you overstate things that may be true at some level and extrapolate into something far bigger than it is. The OP is an example. The effect of any "mass exodus of Indians" or modern day trail of tears to Delhi will overall be minimal, particularly regarding housing in Texas.

There is plenty of pent-up demand out there to offset the H1-Bs. There may be some pockets of opportunity but that will be taken advantage of by folks already in the know and quite possible by H1-Bs friends who have their green cards or citizenships.


OK, I might do that at times. Overstating things may sometimes be the only way to get a point across in a board like this.
I am dismayed to see so many folks, esp Boomers and older GenX believe that the corporation is always right, deserve the tax breaks, and people just lie down and take the abuse just because we supposed to be in a capitalistic society. It is this group of people who did not raise a stink when corps sent all jobs overseas for manufacturing and now tech. They were misled that we were free market. Who cares liberal or conservative, commie or socialist when one's stomach is empty??

Someone was shocked that I followed some CEO on Linkedin. And there are absolutely some good CEOs around. I posted about one such person who sold his company and gave his employees a cut of the profits. A poster here knew the CEO personally and had Thanksgiving dinner with him or something. Steve Jobs II was a great CEO (not his first incarnation). So yes, not everyone is bad but enough suck so bad that one can make a generalization that they mostly stink.
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In reply to YouBet • 9:35a, 6/5/26
YouBet said:
flown-the-coop said:
DannyDuberstein said:
Fortune 50. Have seen it happen over and over again across so many teams. You have to set the bar incredibly low for anything you send there. Has to be the most simple of simple activities, and even that will have issues.


If you are an executive at a Fortune 50, then why repeat the same mistakes over and over again across so many teams?

You may be validating one of infinity ag's most constant gripes about the executives in large corporations.

Again, the data already shows its inaccurate to saw they are low IQ. How many trips have you made to India to attempt to improve on processes you outsourced to there?


"Cutting costs". I lived Danny's corporate life and he is exactly right. I have experience with both Tata and HCL - Indian conglomerates who get alot of US IT outsourcing.

I was there when we outsourced IT to India the first time. Quality plummeted and timelines soared. After about a decade of execs plying the lie that by doing so we would cut costs while improving quality and timelines, our company finally faced reality and backed out of it and near shored some functions to the western hemisphere and re-shored others.

I've been gone a few years now and my friends who are still there now tell me they have completely outsourced to India again. This time it's because they let too many Indians into leadership who sent the jobs back home - classic Indian nepotism.


We are back to what I always preach - that the execs lie to us.

To be honest, the execs don't give a sheet. They only care when their own jobs are at risk from years of bad decisions.

People complaining about "nepotism", that is everywhere. Even here. Steve hires his buddy Peter, that is not unheard of. Then why can't Ramesh hire Rajesh?

The insight is simple. American companies were making decent money but got greedy and wanted to make more money and came up with outsourcing and other tricks which worked for the short term but failed long term. Classic agency problem - the CEO personally benefited but the corporation suffered and possibly died. But people praise it as a win for "capitalism".
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In reply to YouBet • 9:39a, 6/5/26
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I worked with GenPact in the mid oughts and also fully understand the issues and inefficiencies and the failure in most all instances to maintain same standards at a reduced costs.

I am also aware of more recent successes of outsourcing to Latin America and the Philippines and similar.

Where the other guy was wrong is on their assessment of a "low IQ population with fake education" as the driver. Other than being obtuse and derogatory, it's simply not true.
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In reply to DannyDuberstein • 9:42a, 6/5/26
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DannyDuberstein said:
Fortune 50. Have seen it happen over and over again across so many teams. You have to set the bar incredibly low for anything you send there. Has to be the most simple of simple activities, and even that will have issues.

Is this about outsourcing to India?

From personal experience, can confirm. I do not believe logical reasoning is a used skill over there.
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9:46a, 6/5/26
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It seems Leander has no signs of slowing down. Every new business popping up is some sort of Indian or "Halal" Restaurant.
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In reply to flown-the-coop • 9:47a, 6/5/26
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flown-the-coop said:
I worked with GenPact in the mid oughts and also fully understand the issues and inefficiencies and the failure in most all instances to maintain same standards at a reduced costs.

I am also aware of more recent successes of outsourcing to Latin America and the Philippines and similar.

Where the other guy was wrong is on their assessment of a "low IQ population with fake education" as the driver. Other than being obtuse and derogatory, it's simply not true.


Well, it doesn't help when the Indian academic scene is a known, prolific diploma mill. When I would hire for analyst and tech roles on my team here is the breakdown of resumes I got and it was extremely consistent in this regard. For every 10 resumes it would be:

7 - Indians with Masters or Doctorates from Hyderabad
2 - Chinese with Master or Doctorates from wherever
1 - American with Bachelors
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In reply to flown-the-coop • 9:47a, 6/5/26
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flown-the-coop said:
I worked with GenPact in the mid oughts and also fully understand the issues and inefficiencies and the failure in most all instances to maintain same standards at a reduced costs.

I am also aware of more recent successes of outsourcing to Latin America and the Philippines and similar.

Where the other guy was wrong is on their assessment of a "low IQ population with fake education" as the driver. Other than being obtuse and derogatory, it's simply not true.


Call it whatever you want, but after one encounters slug after slug after slug here and abroad, with the rare productive one mixed in, there's something certainly amiss and deeply ingrained.
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In reply to YouBet • 9:51a, 6/5/26
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YouBet said:
flown-the-coop said:
I worked with GenPact in the mid oughts and also fully understand the issues and inefficiencies and the failure in most all instances to maintain same standards at a reduced costs.

I am also aware of more recent successes of outsourcing to Latin America and the Philippines and similar.

Where the other guy was wrong is on their assessment of a "low IQ population with fake education" as the driver. Other than being obtuse and derogatory, it's simply not true.


Well, it doesn't help when the Indian academic scene is a known, prolific diploma mill. When I would hire for analyst and tech roles on my team here is the breakdown of resumes I got and it was extremely consistent in this regard. For every 10 resumes it would be:

7 - Indians with Masters or Doctorates from Hyderabad
2 - Chinese with Master or Doctorates from wherever
1 - American with Bachelors


If people still hire based on degrees then they are likely sub-100 IQ. And there are plenty of wypeepo MBAs from Puhonicks University circulating in the corporate ranks who got their promotion based on a fake degree.
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9:52a, 6/5/26
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And I don't hire them either.
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In reply to infinity ag • 9:54a, 6/5/26
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infinity ag said:
DannyDuberstein said:
Logos Stick said:
One big issue with the Indians is that once they takeover a function inside an organization, they openly discriminate.

Open discrimination in favor of Indians as well as a lot of discrimination against women. And not just hiring of women, but hostility toward them and the inability to work with them. 30 years of Fortune 100 experience tells me that about 90% of them are useless bags of crap. Lousy at what they do, good at hiring their peers who are just as lousy.

Then why do our corps hire 70% H1Bs from India and outsource most of our jobs there?

"It's a rhetorical question, Farley. It's a rhetorical question. It means you don't have to answer it because either I already know the answer or I don't care what your answer is."
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In reply to flown-the-coop • 10:01a, 6/5/26
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flown-the-coop said:
YouBet said:
flown-the-coop said:
I worked with GenPact in the mid oughts and also fully understand the issues and inefficiencies and the failure in most all instances to maintain same standards at a reduced costs.

I am also aware of more recent successes of outsourcing to Latin America and the Philippines and similar.

Where the other guy was wrong is on their assessment of a "low IQ population with fake education" as the driver. Other than being obtuse and derogatory, it's simply not true.


Well, it doesn't help when the Indian academic scene is a known, prolific diploma mill. When I would hire for analyst and tech roles on my team here is the breakdown of resumes I got and it was extremely consistent in this regard. For every 10 resumes it would be:

7 - Indians with Masters or Doctorates from Hyderabad
2 - Chinese with Master or Doctorates from wherever
1 - American with Bachelors


If people still hire based on degrees then they are likely sub-100 IQ. And there are plenty of wypeepo MBAs from Puhonicks University circulating in the corporate ranks who got their promotion based on a fake degree.


Agree with that. MBAs became a profit center in late 2000s which is why every university in the country started offering them. They are meaningless degrees now unless you have one from a top tier school and even then I would question the ROI of one in 2026. (Self disclosure: I have an MBA from reputable program but not top tier that I got before they got watered down).
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In reply to nortex97 • 10:28a, 6/5/26
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Diwali is a fairly harmless celebration of lights (light over darkness), akin outwardly to Xmas lights. In a listing of all the problems in the world/state of Texas...it really doesn't even make the list.


Cool. Sounds like something very benign yet would be cool to check out.

Thanks for the info.
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No Spin Ag said:
nortex97 said:
Diwali is a fairly harmless celebration of lights (light over darkness), akin outwardly to Xmas lights. In a listing of all the problems in the world/state of Texas...it really doesn't even make the list.


Cool. Sounds like something very benign yet would be cool to check out.

Thanks for the info.


While it seems harmless, it's total bull**** when companies go out of their way to decorate and celebrate it internally but then discourage the same for Christmas.
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In reply to YouBet • 10:48a, 6/5/26
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No Spin Ag said:
nortex97 said:
Diwali is a fairly harmless celebration of lights (light over darkness), akin outwardly to Xmas lights. In a listing of all the problems in the world/state of Texas...it really doesn't even make the list.


Cool. Sounds like something very benign yet would be cool to check out.

Thanks for the info.


While it seems harmless, it's total bull**** when companies go out of their way to decorate and celebrate it internally but then discourage the same for Christmas.


Agreed that companies need to handle these things equally. Either allow all celebrations or none.

Besides, it's not as if people can't celebrate when they're not at work.
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10:48a, 6/5/26
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Wonderful news and to hell with all the builders and lenders who were profiting from our once great state's demise.
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11:07a, 6/5/26
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Maybe let's not issue 30-year no credit check mortgages to Indians who are here on 3 year visas. Rotten to the core. Love to see it.
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In reply to Maroon Elephant • 11:18a, 6/5/26
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Maybe let's not issue 30-year no credit check mortgages to Indians who are here on 3 year visas. Rotten to the core. Love to see it.


I didn't know banks were doing that.

You'd think they'd (banks) would've learned after what happened in the early aughts.

If they didn't do what they've done this wouldn't be an issue.
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In reply to infinity ag • 11:28a, 6/5/26
sounds like a great deal to get a 10% discount

but do I want to be the one white Jewish homeowner surrounded by 1000 Hindu / Muslim Indian homes?
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11:30a, 6/5/26
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I don't want anyone raped and killed lol. But speaking of people being killed, let's talk Indian sham CDLs. Or I'm just imagining those sham credentials too?

Also, I didn't post that they were ****ting on sidewalks here; I said we were lucky they weren't given the issue back home. But I did say they don't keep up their properties well. Are we disputing that too? Call it whatever you want, this is all from decades of direct experience.
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11:49a, 6/5/26
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Yep, shut off the visa spigot. Companies will still send work there, but I'm not concerned about that work. They'll save a few bucks, get subpar work, and life will go on.
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12:15p, 6/5/26
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I'm an American of Indian descent and agree with the following:

Terrible at keeping up with property
The CDL sham is horrendous
Modern day Indians don't assimilate well to the west

All that said, India is an ally in a part of the world where we could use some capitalist allies. For those of you calling them backwards and 3rd World, you may not have a clue how far the society has come in the last 40 years. Modern day condos look not different than the ones you see here. AC is everywhere now - trust me that's a big deal.

Yep, you'll see the raw sewage and disease in the villages of you get out of the metro areas. It's still a very raw experience in that regard.

All that said, there are things said here that just cross the line.

Alluding to how people smell. Is it an issue? Sure, but you're coming from a place that's considered to be the cleanest in the world. I went to boarding school in England and was only allowed to change underwear 2 times a week.

You can't keep lumping Indian immigrants in with the Muslims and border crossers. These are not the same people.

Indians are not dumb. Lots of successful business owners, not to mention the doctors, engineers, etc. I would bet their pre college kids are way better at STEM than Americans.

Lastly, this visa stuff... hate the game, not the player. It's our own damn government that has allowed this. What did you expect an Indian to say? "No thanks, I don't know how to cut my lawn so I'll pass..."

Flame away.
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In reply to scd88 • 12:31p, 6/5/26
scd88 said:
I'm an American of Indian descent and agree with the following:

Terrible at keeping up with property
The CDL sham is horrendous
Modern day Indians don't assimilate well to the west

All that said, India is an ally in a part of the world where we could use some capitalist allies. For those of you calling them backwards and 3rd World, you may not have a clue how far the society has come in the last 40 years. Modern day condos look not different than the ones you see here. AC is everywhere now - trust me that's a big deal.

Yep, you'll see the raw sewage and disease in the villages of you get out of the metro areas. It's still a very raw experience in that regard.

All that said, there are things said here that just cross the line.

Alluding to how people smell. Is it an issue? Sure, but you're coming from a place that's considered to be the cleanest in the world. I went to boarding school in England and was only allowed to change underwear 2 times a week.

You can't keep lumping Indian immigrants in with the Muslims and border crossers. These are not the same people.

Indians are not dumb. Lots of successful business owners, not to mention the doctors, engineers, etc. I would bet their pre college kids are way better at STEM than Americans.

Lastly, this visa stuff... hate the game, not the player. It's our own damn government that has allowed this. What did you expect an Indian to say? "No thanks, I don't know how to cut my lawn so I'll pass..."

Flame away.


Needs another star before the flaming, especially because you rightfully highlighted that it's our government at the root of this.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. Hippocrates
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In reply to scd88 • 1:40p, 6/5/26
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Yeah I think its important to take a step back and try to separate criticism of the policy from criticism of the people. I think there are a lot of valid criticisms of H1-B, that it is being used more for wage suppression than to address actual labor shortcomings. But let's please acknowledge that the people coming over on those visas are just taking advantage of a good opportunity. They are not invaders; they have been invited by their employers and by our government. They are our guests. I would have hoped this "they are aliens, they are dirty, and I want them the f out of my neighboorhood" kind of rhetoric could've remained a relic of the past.
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In reply to njohn87 • 3:23p, 6/5/26
njohn87 said:
Yeah I think its important to take a step back and try to separate criticism of the policy from criticism of the people. I think there are a lot of valid criticisms of H1-B, that it is being used more for wage suppression than to address actual labor shortcomings. But let's please acknowledge that the people coming over on those visas are just taking advantage of a good opportunity. They are not invaders; they have been invited by their employers and by our government. They are our guests. I would have hoped this "they are aliens, they are dirty, and I want them the f out of my neighboorhood" kind of rhetoric could've remained a relic of the past.
They are guests of corrupt policies, they are not "our" guests. They add little if anything of value to communities. No one wants them here except the powers that be looking for cheap labor.
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In reply to njohn87 • 6:09p, 6/5/26
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They are our guests.

Guests don't take over your house, run you out of town, then invite all their brothers and cousins and grandparents to move into your place.

The cronyism, fraud and downright deceptive hiring practices that we see across multiple industries today have destroyed job prospects for hundreds of thousands of citizens -- or more -- and especially young graduates. They've done more than take advantage of the invitation to come here; they've manipulated the rules to benefit their own people at the expense of Americans.
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