Just how deep is the corrupt plan? Entry-level work is the first rung. Whether you have a college education or are a fresh grad our of high school. H-1B and illegal labor both are getting first shot at those jobs. The H-1B is sold as a shortage of skilled people- yet unemployment for the same jobs has never been recorded this high. A lot of the actual placements are in roles a new graduate can do, or in staffing shops that recycle the same bodies. Illegal labor hits the other end: plants, kitchens, construction, warehouses, the jobs that used to be the first paycheck. When both doors are shut by foreign labor, the American who just finished school or just turned eighteen has fewer places to start. A person with no first job does three things. They stay home longer. They take whatever aid is offered. They start to believe the system does not want them. That person becomes a vote for the party that promises the next benefit and a hard vote against the party that talks about work. You do not need a conspiracy for that. You need employers who prefer a worker who cannot quit, politicians who prefer a donor who likes the foreign labor pipeline, and a young voter who has never had a reason to defend the labor market. The youth piece is the sharp one. An H-1B in a junior role is not filling a gap a twenty-two-year-old American could not close. It is closing the gap before the American gets there. Same with the plant that lays off the line and rehires at a lower rate with people who should not have been in the building. The result is the same. Fewer Americans with a stake in the private economy. More Americans who experience government benefits as the only thing that can help them. Call it a plan if you want. Call it a side effect that nobody in the loop has a reason to stop. The test is the same. Name the bill that puts the American graduate or the American kid first in the entry-level seat. There is not one that has passed. The shortage talk continues. The placements continue. The assistance talk gets louder every cycle the jobs stay closed. This is the plan that everyone benefits from...except the American worker.

Dear President H. W. Bush and Senator Ted Kennedy, I am writing back in time as a recent STEM graduate who finished at the top of my class in 2026. I did everything that was asked of me. High grades. Strong projects. Internships when I could get them. It was the path promised to those who could complete the coursework. I believed the degree would open doors. It has not. I have gone through interview after interview with no offer. At the same time, many of the foreign students I studied alongside already had jobs waiting for them before they graduated. Some received offers during their junior year. I am still sending out applications and receiving short, impersonal rejections or silence. You both helped create the H-1B program in 1990 with the promise that it would fill temporary skill gaps and bring the best talent to America. That is not what I am seeing. What I am seeing is a system that often prefers workers who arrive with sponsorship already arranged while American graduates who trained here are left competing for fewer and fewer open seats. The shortage never seemed to close. The opportunities for people like me only got tighter. You will never sit in the position I am in, watching classmates from other countries move into roles while I keep hearing that the market is competitive. Was this the plan from the start, or were you too ignorant to understand the long-term result? The harm is quiet and personal. It lands on students who did the work and still cannot find a place in the profession they prepared for. That is the part of the promise that did not come true. Sincerely, A top graduate still looking for work in my field (Screwtape Parody)