We need them. It would be ridiculous to send them back when adults with no skills and only elementary school level education are walking into our nation. Although this administration is capable of anything that doesn’t make sense. He’s being blackmailed by China so they’ll probably want them back in their country to help them, not us.

If an HB-1 worker can afford to purchase a house in this area they are not hurting for money.

Just sell the house for equity profit and move on.

An HB-1 worker is not a U.S. citizen and only a temporary worker. They knew that when they first applied or were recruited

If America is intent on maintaining the highest standards of excellence in pedigreed academic institutions, only qualified applicants who meet the required GPA and SAT/ACT admission requirements should be admitted.

Another consideration...there are many outstanding and predominantly black colleges and universities to attend including Howard University, Grambling University, Tuskeegee Institute, Alcorn State University and others.

I agree with Estelle. H1-B visa holders knew the rules coming into the game. The big companies use foreign labor to keep salaries down. No extensions please. American friends of mine in the tech industry have had to train their foreign replacements. Why aren't we doing more to protect Americans from greedy tech corporations?

"Large tech companies in Silicon Valley have taken advantage of this program to recruit workers from China and India and other countries who possess specific advanced computer science, programming and engineering skills. Companies like Meta (Facebook's parent company) have large immigration teams that help their employees and their families navigate the immigration system."

Of course they have. And every year the number of full-time employees keep dropping to be replaced by contractors and consultants, many of them without benefits which increases OUR costs to house them (see all the tech-funded YIMBY bills now destroying OUR neighborhoods) and against paying gig workers living wages.

For at least 8 years ALL the big tech companies have had fewer and fewer full-time employees than contractors/ consultants / gig workers that full-time employees with benefits.

Check the hundreds of millions in lobbying expenses spend to undercut workers' pay, the number of class action suits for discrimination against minorities, women, older workers etc. etc etc.

If they came here legally, I feel bad for them. But they did know the rules, and selling your home for equity makes sense. Large companies do use foreign workers to keep salaries down, and American jobs are sent overseas for the same reason.

Gig workers will never make a living wage. It's a side hustle, and side hustles don't pay living wages. If you want a living wage job, you have your options. Including an education.

I agree with Sheila E

Our federal and CA state politicians - and some counties! condone illegal immigration, mostly these are economic choices, but it’s STILL illegal to enter and stay in a country when you’ve entered illegally by lying or via ridiculous loopholes - there can be unknown, unscreened possibly threatening persons turned loose on their own recognizance, while government is possibly removing high skill H-1B legal immigrants/vistors! Truly incredible.

Gee, you fly in and your identity and passport is scrutinized

If you pay a coyote to bring you in, possibly human traffick you, this is all fine. Staggering mispacement of priorities by many of our government officials. I think illegal aliens should be immediately deported.

Throw in liberal CA counties and DAs refusing to hand over undocumented criminals to ICE for deportation
Gee, don’t we feel safe

- Oh, how’s it going up in SF and Oakland with respect to crime?

- stop the anchor baby schemes. San Diego hospitals can’t afford illegal immigrants coming here to give birth then obtaining citizenship.

What this doesn't say is that these are now families with American born children, probably living here in Palo Alto, in school with our children, and have never been to the homeland apart from possibly a short visit. Some may not even speak their language or not well enough to integrate back into the foreign school system.

Having lived here for several years, this is their home.

At the same time, these high tech workers are well educated, extremely good at the work they do, possibly doing a better job than an American educated engineer, and willing to work hard to do the job they are being paid to do. There are layoffs, but there are other companies who will employ them, perhaps not with the glitzy name that they can tell their families back home, but new startups are still looking for good workers willing to work without all the perks of onsite dry cleaning, gyms or haircuts.

Yes, some countries wisely actively seek to bring highly educated, often Tech workers to their country. I believe New Zealand is one example.

I disagree with passively allowing random unknown individuals to disrespect our borders and come here with who knows what intentions. Our governor, among other politicians, oddly seems determined to avoid the Law and reason to respect our country’s borders.

Newsom allocated a large amount of taxpayer $ ($1B?) during the pandemic at one point for undocumented because to my recollection they were “left out” of pandemic relief at times at the federal level. I recall reading the CA state legislature had not discussed and voted on this expenditure.

Nobody should be allowed to come here illegally, regardless of what country you're coming from. I'll never understand the mindset of any lawmaker who allows it, or any American who enables the situation. What part of illegal don't you understand? You're not only disrespecting the law you're disrespecting yourself and fellow Americans. You need to come to terms with why your feel this is okay. It's not.

With the lucrative salaries many H-1B have drawn, they should consider returning home to India or China and assist in the further development of their respective countries.

Also consider selling the house as there will be a reasonable profit.

Very few refugee=Asylum seekers coming across the border are illegal.
Get a grip, our constitution makes international agreements we ratified US Law.

See here: Web Link

• Very few refugee=Asylum seekers coming across the border are illegal.

They are all illegal until properly processed (via asylum application) and vetted by the United States government/Homeland Security.

"Silicon Valley's tech layoffs have left H-1B visa holders unsure whether to sell their homes as time runs out to find employment..."

Given the H-1B protocols, the option is clearcut: source new employment within 60 days or sell the house and move back to one's native country with a nice equity capital gain.

If these H1-B workers can afford to purchase a home in Palo Alto, Los Altos, and/or Mountain View, they are obviously not hurting for money.

If unsuccessful towards landing a new job, just sell the house and return to one's native country with a windfall.

"We need them. It would be ridiculous to send them back when adults with no skills and only elementary school level education are walking into our nation."

No we don't. Artificial intelligence will easily replace many of these disposable H-1B workers from abroad and this technological development will save corporations even more money.

These H-1B workers are not U.S. citizens and they are not entitled to the same permanent residency rights as ordinary Americans.

"What this doesn't say is that these are now families with American born children, probably living here in Palo Alto, in school with our children, and have never been to the homeland apart from possibly a short visit. Some may not even speak their language or not well enough to integrate back into the foreign school system."

This is the fault of non-citizen parents who entered the United States fully knowing that their jobs were temporary. They could have easily left their families in India or China and sent money home like many workers from Mexico.

As far as their children having to adjust to a foreign environment upon returning to their parent's country of origin, so be it.

Just call it home.

No sympathy here for displaced H-1B workers who were able to purchase expensive Bay Area homes nor for their children who may be forced to return the the countries of their parent's origin.

In the long run, this repatriation will be good for America.