Overview
- Mark Mitchell said on Steve Bannon’s show that sending back a senior H‑1B developer is the economic equivalent of deporting 10 undocumented immigrants.
- He posted on X on December 10 that he wants to build a consultancy to “de‑Indianize” major U.S. companies, adding that he would work at it until he “drop[ped] dead.”
- Mitchell argued tech firms replace older American engineers with cheaper foreign workers and described H‑1B hires as “third‑world engineers.”
- He criticized the Trump administration for not sending back H‑1B visa holders despite his claims about their impact on U.S. jobs.
- Reporting cited data that about 66% of Silicon Valley tech jobs are held by foreign‑born workers, including roughly 23% Indian and 18% Chinese, and that Indians receive over 70% of the 85,000 H‑1B visas granted annually.