Vivek Wadhwa, an Indian-born tech investor, suggests that American tech professionals should accept low-wage teaching jobs in rural Alaska and let H-1B migrant Indians enjoy high-wage jobs in Silicon Valley. He argues that anti-immigrants who claim foreigners are taking American jobs are not willing to move to rural Alaska and instead prefer qualified foreigners not to have those jobs.
American tech professionals should accept low-wage teaching jobs in rural Alaska and let H-1B migrant Indians enjoy the high-wage jobs in sunny cosmopolitan Silicon Valley , says Vivek Wadhwa , an Indian-born tech investor.
“Dear Anti-immigrants constantly crying that foreigners are taking American jobs: Why aren’t you teaching in rural Alaska? ” Wadhwaon June 8 shortly after a judge rejected President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on arriving H-1B contract workers. He jeered: Hundreds of positions sit empty . Remote districts are importing teachers from overseas on H-1Bs because you won’t move there.
You don’t actually want those jobs; you just don’t want qualified foreigners to have them. Complete hypocrisy. Wadhwa “is from India I’m not sure how attuned he is to American politics,” Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told Breitbart News. He added: But you don’t have to be that attuned to realize that there’s a significant populist upsurge, not just in the United States, but across the West.
Just saying, people are stupid and ignorant if they agree with the sentiments of that populist upsurge is not doing anything to quell it.
“Americans are waking up to the fact that we don’t need these arrogant foreigners coming in and taking our jobs because they can undercut American salaries,” Kevin Lynn, founder of USTech Workers, which opposes the H-1B program, told Breitbart News. Wadhwa’s taunt comes as he lobbies U.S. legislators to legalize a migration program created by President George W. Bush without Congress’ approval. The “that brings in roughly 80,000 extra Indian graduates each year.
The program keeps at least 1 million H-1B workers and their spouses in white-collar jobs that would otherwise be held by American graduates. The program is also amany H-1Bs for teaching jobs.
“Over 500 public K-12 school districts in the United States collectively employ over 2,300 H-1B visa holders,” the National Education Association The districts include Dallas, New York, and the District of Columbia, the site reported, adding, “These districts include the Bering Strait School District and the Lower Kuskokwim School District in Alaska. ” The unfilled teaching jobs in Alaska cited by Wadhwa are empty precisely because Alaska’s government prefers the cheap-labor H-1B migrants provided by the federal government, said Krikorian.for an art teacher job in Nuiqsut, a town with a population of just over 500 people on the northern edge of Alaska.
The Nuiqsut job starts at $65,000 but can rise to $92,000. In summer, the sun stays above the horizon for 84 days, and in the winter it disappears for 67 days. ”Alaskan politicians “have a retention issue salaries have only risen a few percent over the last 20 years,” said Lynn. Alaskan politicians “prefer to hire cheap H-1Bs … don’t care about the output,” he told Breitbart News.
Why is it the federal government’s issue to deal with local school district staffing problems? … The idea that the Congress short circuit the normal … political pressure for the state legislature in Alaska to fund more teachers is crazy.by Sen.
Lisa Murkowski , who admitted Alaska’s policy of relying on federally provided workers as she celebrated the judge’s decision: Many school districts in rural and remote parts of the state rely on the H-1B visa program to bring quality teachers to their communities. In Alaska, this isn’t a partisan issue: the state legislature unanimously passed a resolution last month urging the federal government to waive the fee for educators.
“It is not appropriate for the federal government to be subsidizing local school boards, but even if you thought that was a good idea, it would just be better to send a check to Alaska and say, ‘Okay, offer more money to teachers, so you can get teachers to go there,'” he said. “They’re having foreigners teach our students,” said Lynn.
The result is that “our students will know less about American history, less about American culture, and less about American values. ” If Alaska does not produce enough Alaska teachers, it can also recruit Americans from the other 49 states, Krikorian said.
Why not turn it into an guest worker program, where young people work for two years, get free flights back and forth, and make it an experience …. are unfair to American teachers in Alaska, but also to American teachers who would consider going to Alaska for a few years if the pay were better or if there were some other arrangement that would make it appealing,also means that American teachers in Alaska are getting far less compensation than the imported teachers from poor developing countries, he said: Compensation is salary plus benefits, so usually that means salary plus health insurance or matching 401K matches.
But for each H-1B , the benefit package also includes access to the United States, which is something that Americans already have, so they’re compensated more. They probably would work for less — maybe even just room and board — because they’re getting access to the United States. Many H-1B workers convert their access into the huge prize of green cards — and then citizenship for themselves, family members, and all of their descendants.
“If you’re coming from anywhere in the developing world, it’s enormous,” said Krikorian. Another problem is that the federal government, not Alaska, runs the H-1B program. This proved problematic for Alaskan schools once President Donald Trump added a $100,000 fee for the arrival of new H-1B contract workers in 2026.
“No Alaskan school district can afford to pay the $100,000 visa fee for a qualified teacher, despite the universally recognized shortage of educators in rural Alaska,”Trump’s deputies will tell Appeals Court judges that it is a legitimate exercise of the president’s almost-limitless border authority. Worse, the H-1B program allows Alaskan politicians to ignore their local problems, which include training, recruiting, and keeping Alaskans for Alaskan education jobs, Krikorian said, adding: Why would politicians and business leaders and local government officials go through the work of coming up with something and implementing it, if they can just send away for H-1B teachers with a click of a mouse?
It’s going to end, whether it ends this year or next, I don’t know, but it’s coming to an end. ”
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