They don't want to lose their 'cheaper' gravy train of H-1B Visa workers that Dems promote to the max..

I know 'first hand' that these workers are told Americans are too stupid to fill the jobs.. Seriously..

Susoni

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By Ethan Baron
PUBLISHED: January 17, 2018

H-1B: Foreign citizens make up nearly three-quarters of Silicon Valley tech workforce, report says ... The Seattle Times did not include in its report a breakdown for Silicon Valley of how many foreign-born tech workers are U.S. citizens, versus visa holders. But the paper's research indicated that 63 percent ...

About 71 percent of tech workers in the valley are foreign-born, compared to about 50 percent in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward region, according to a new report based on 2016 census data.

Techies from outside America tend to go “the center of the action” in the U.S. tech industry, Seattle venture capitalist S. “Soma” Somasegar told the Seattle Times.

And Silicon Valley remains the “center of the tech universe,” according to the newspaper.

Beyond personal preferences, and the sheer number of companies in areas such as Silicon Valley and fast-growing Seattle, the financial resources of major technology firms also play a role in bringing in foreign-born workers, the Seattle Times reported.

Many techies born elsewhere work under the controversial H-1B visa — intended for specialty occupations — which has become a flashpoint in the U.S. cage fight over immigration, with opponents claiming it lets foreigners steal American jobs, and several companies and U.C. San Francisco accused of abusing the visa program by using it as a tool to outsource Americans’ jobs to far-away lands.

Although 2016 data released by the federal government last year shows that outsourcing companies — mostly from India — raked in the bulk of H-1B visas, Google took more than 2,500 and Apple nearly 2,000 to hire foreign workers, about 60 percent of them holding master’s degrees.

Large companies, the Seattle Times pointed out, are better equipped to bring in workers under the H-1B.

“The H1-B process is not just complicated — it’s also quite expensive to sponsor an H1-B visa worker, a cost larger companies may be more willing to absorb,” the paper reported.

Legal blog UpCounsel puts the cost of the H-1B process at $10,000 to $11,000 per employee.

The Seattle Times did not include in its report a breakdown for Silicon Valley of how many immigrants are U.S. citizens, versus visa holders. But the paper’s research indicated that 63 percent of Seattle’s foreign-born techies were not American citizens.