Vivek Wadhwa

And when the H-1B workers do come here and decide that they love America, they want to now become Americans, they're stuck in the same job.

You see what happens?

It is a nasty trick over here that if you're a computer programmer, when you filed your H-1B visa and you become a manager three or four years later, which is what's normal in the tech industry, it's a different job.

Person became from software developer to IT manager.

That is a drastic change.

New salary, new department, new job duties.

Sounds amazing, right?

Wrong.

So therefore people start to continue doing the same job they did when they started the H-1B process, which means that they're stuck in limbo and they're also making below market salaries.

So the opponents of H-1B visas are correct.

in the fact that this system is abused and that it does impact U.S.

A startup.

It works on fumes.

You don't have that kind of money.

The Googles and the Microsofts and the Oracles, they've got big money.

So $100,000 is nothing to them.

But to the companies that really need the deep talent to be able to do world-changing innovations, we're on tight budgets.

$100,000 is...

Unaffordable.

Yes, it basically shuts off the system.