Here is our honest take on this.

1. #H1B shd never have created humanitarian consequences for local American population. Unfortunately it did in last 20 years. Now, it has turned around.

2. H1B helped USA maintain tech hegemony. This hegemony will be gone now. An Indian was among the inventors of wireless communications.

3. American businesses seek access to massive Indian market to sell their tech products and services. Companies like IBM, Dell, Oracle, HP, Amazon sell their products to Indians. As we are no longer in colonial era, Indians can make their own printers, servers and softwares, if H1B guys return and if they lose their self respect due to insults.

4. India is like an elephant. It does nothing in reaction for quite sometime. When it charges, it becomes a juggernaut. Ask Pakistan.

5. Loss of American brand: USA risks losing goodwill of 1.4 billion people in Asia, where USA does not have many friendly populations. Who is friendly to USA? Middle easterners? Persians? Chinese or Russians? Now USA risks losing 1.4 billion Indians, who were big fans of USA.

6. Gradually reducing H1B quotas would have been tolerable, MAGA insults are not.

7. We, the older guys of SIFF always resented "Code Coolie" work done by Indians due to H1B or outsourcing. We worked on making tech products and we hated it, when code coolies were preferred in India than designers and innovators. Dollar to rupee exchange rate was the major market force. Change was overdue.

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