H-1B Visas Are Pushing Americans Out of Job Market, Experts Warn
19th November 2025
There have been over 500,000 layoffs in the tech industry since 2022 and recent computer science graduates face a greater unemployment rate in their field than America’s average unemployment rate, Kevin Lynn, the executive director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy, explained during a Heritage Foundation event Wednesday. The H-1B visa program is largely to blame, according to Lynn.
“The H-1B visa program is by far the largest computer sciences guest worker program in existence,” according to Lynn.
In 2023, 134,000 American citizens graduated from computer science programs. That same year, 121,000 foreign workers entered the U.S. to work computer jobs, and among those, 75,000 were in the H-1B visa program, Lynn said.
Since the creation of the H-1B visa program in 1990, the “quantity and the quality of the jobs for computer and engineering professions have suffered greatly for Americans,” Lynn said.