{"id":4993,"date":"2026-08-26T19:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4993"},"modified":"2026-08-26T19:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:08:22","slug":"rooke-big-tech-broke-the-social-contract-and-american-workers-havent-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4993","title":{"rendered":"ROOKE: Big Tech Broke The Social Contract And American Workers Haven\u2019t Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>At the heart of the legal immigration debate is a broken social contract between Silicon Valley and the middle class. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4991\">Air Force Awarded Nearly $750,000 For AI-Powered DEI Training Tool Under Biden<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Americans have become increasingly frustrated with the wave of legal immigration brought into the U.S. to replace American workers. This primarily started in the tech industry, where the pipeline for middle-class Americans to access the American Dream was first removed. <\/p>\n<p>Americans designed and built the first personal computers in the 70s and 80s. By 1993, Mosaic rolled out its internet browser for Windows and Macintosh, connecting the world to the internet. Americans had successfully created the tech boom that hasn\u2019t slowed down since. Middle-class Americans thought this line of work would be the wave of the future. They pushed their children into tech specialties, telling them that if they worked hard, they could be the next generation of innovators. <\/p>\n<p>This was the unwritten contract. Our children would focus less on economics, medicine, and other specialties, with the promise that the tech industry would fulfill its end by hiring them upon graduation. Sadly, the U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1990, creating an annual 65,000 visa cap allowing foreign workers to replace the middle class. <\/p>\n<p>Palmer Luckey, Oculus founder and Anduril CEO, claimed to have observed H-1B visa abuse in Silicon Valley, calling it a scam that replaces U.S. workers with foreign labor, during an interview on the Shaun Ryan Show in February 2025. <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course there is so much H-1B abuse. You would not believe what I saw when I was in Silicon Valley. It is insane. It\u2019s obviously a program to replace U.S. workers with, basically, slave labor that can\u2019t ever escape,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bwSycrvcwAs?si=JxsVNTFYonV0sZXq\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Computer-related occupations accounted for only 26 percent of H-1Bs in 1995 but almost doubled to 42 percent in 1996, according to the Center for Migration Studies paper published in the Sage Journal. <\/p>\n<p>The demand for foreign labor wasn\u2019t spontaneously created by Congress. The information and communications technology industry (ICT) lobbied for it. <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ICT industry has been the dominant user of the H-1B program over the past two decades,\u201d the paper stated. \u201cThe major source of these workers in turn has been India. In 2000, 49 percent of all approved H-1B petitions were for Indian citizens, and by 2015, that figure had increased to 71 percent.\u201d <strong>(<\/strong><em><strong>Sign up for Mary Rooke\u2019s weekly newsletter here!<\/strong><\/em><strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone from Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Facebook (now META), Oracle, Intel, and Qualcomm employed substantial numbers of H-1B workers. And they wanted more. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4987\">Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner Says He Wants To \u2018Blow Up\u2019 White House Ballroom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cICT firms began to use the program heavily, and the annual limit became a constraint. Starting in the mid-1990s, therefore, ICT firms began working to raise the H-1B cap. Harris Miller, a professional lobbyist with expertise in immigration, was hired as president of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) in 1995. A new business association, American Business for Legal Immigration (ABLI), was established with financial support from prominent ICT firms and designed to focus specifically on skilled immigration,\u201d the paper stated. <\/p>\n<p>Former President Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party solicited help from ICT firms for his 1996 reelection campaign. At the time, there weren\u2019t any anti-immigration organizations large enough to fight back against the growing access the tech industry had to the federal government through its political action committee, TechNet. This wasn\u2019t just a Democratic Party issue. Republicans are just as much to blame. <\/p>\n<p>By the early 2000s, Americans were being replaced en masse, and ICT lobbying firms continued their march to raise the cap on how many foreign workers could be granted U.S. visas. <\/p>\n<p>In just 33 years, the U.S. tech industry went from using raw American talent to build the internet to casting them aside in favor of cheaper foreign labor. <\/p>\n<p>Isaiah Taylor, founder of Valar Atomics, opined on the increasingly hostile relationship between Americans and tech, arguing that a middle ground must be found before it\u2019s too late. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTech bros need to remember that they exist within a nation that has a people, not a blank economic zone,\u201d Taylor wrote. \u201cMiddle class America needs to remember that national strength comes from economic and technological strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a careful synthesis between these that we must strike,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s missing a very important fact here. It wasn\u2019t the middle class that broke the social contract. The tech industry, with its greed and clear lack of loyalty to Americans who made it, did. The middle class was more than happy to continue bolstering the tech industry. It was excited about the advancements in technology, and especially about being a part of its rise. However, what Taylor and the rest of the \u201ctech bros\u201d are asking is that Americans ignore the betrayal and support it anyway. They want the middle class to continue to lose out to foreign workers without complaint. But that just isn\u2019t going to happen anymore. (ROOKE: Trump Administration Takes Big Bite Of Immigration Apple With $103,265 Fee)<\/p>\n<p>If the tech industry is worried about how the growing discontent among Americans will affect its ability to grow, then it needs to take a clear-eyed look at what caused the divide. The success of data centers, social media, and AI all revolves around their desire to fix the relationship between tech and the middle class. Any call to action should start with a renewed social contract. One that benefits American workers and doesn\u2019t leave them training their replacements. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4985\">Enes Kanter Freedom Banned From Sky Arena Over \u2018Potential To Be A Threat\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Mary Rooke on X: <\/em><em>@MaryRooke<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sign up for Mary Rooke\u2019s weekly newsletter here!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the heart of the legal immigration debate is a broken social contract between Silicon Valley and the middle class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2052,104,2034,2629,2370,65,4005,2368],"class_list":["post-4993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-american-workers","tag-big-tech","tag-bill-clinton","tag-center-for-immigration-studies","tag-h-1b-visa-program","tag-immigration","tag-middle-class","tag-silicon-valley"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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