Posted by alephnerd 14 hours ago
I love that the racists who attack the H1B program simultaneously complain that some racial groups earn more than their own white group, and also that the same racial groups are somehow just low cost labor meant to replace Americans. Their brains cannot acknowledge the most basic contradictions in their worldview.
Also the anti immigration “activist” this article casually mentions is absolutely deranged:
> Palasciano said he found it suspicious that there was a growing number of small businesses in Frisco owned by people of Indian origin employing Indian H-1B workers, especially in light of Paxton’s investigation.
> “There’s potential visa fraud here,” Palasciano said.
He literally sees a business employing nonwhites and thinks there is fraud. Textbook racist. His Twitter posts are even more unhinged and conspiratorial:
Meanwhile, Trump has given Indian manufacturers very competitive trade terms [4] and is transferring semiconductor and REE IP to India [5][6].
[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/alphabet-...
[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-11/india-dra...
[2] - https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/big-oil-is-offshorin...
[3] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-11/trump-vis...
[4] - https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/02/unit...
[5] - https://x.com/USAmbIndia/status/2010718052992618815
[6] - https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/india-can-rival-chin...
[7] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/us-loses-...
[8] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-11/trump-s-h...
To a certain extent. For years now most founders in Cybersecurity, Enterprise SaaS, and DefenseTech in the US either have familial ties or immigrated from India, Israel, or CEE. Additionally, all the major VC funds have had India dedicated or Indian diaspora dedicated funds for almost 3 decades now.
Additonally, it's much easier to publicly list in India now that the IPO market is fixed, so we can move startups that aren't going to perform in the US to India where US$50M-$100M in revenue can justify an exit that is better than a PE buyout.
> Seems like the Bay Area still has the strongest network effects, even if it doesn’t make sense.
Absolutely. Hell, I live here too and it cannot be beat.
But founders and operators are largely either immigrants or the children of immigrants. Half of Bangalore and Tel Aviv is here right now raising capital, but all the core strategic roles (Product, Engineering) are increasingly only located in India, Israel, and CEE.
> is this offshoring really a threat to America
To America, no.
To Americans not working in a Tier 1 hub and aren't upskilling (ie. most losers on HN) absolutely.
Why pay $160K for Joe in Cary who's a bootcamp grad when I can hire Jamila who has an MSCS from UIUC and worked at Google MTV on an H1B and is now returning to Koramangla in order to work as a staff engineer for $90K?
That said, for American politicans services offshoring does not matter. It's a mostly blue voting industry with a vocal red minority largely living in a blue states or blue bubbles in red states. IC SWEs are not a vote bank for the GOP nor the DNC.