Do you know Kevin Flanagan? American software guy, 41 years old, working at Bank of America’s Concord Tech Center in the Bay Area. Except, now he’s dead.
He put in nearly a decade as a programmer. Back when H-1B and similar work visas were still early and nowhere near today’s crisis levels, when the public was still being sold the lie that foreign worker replacement was rare and only for “extraordinary skill,” the bank did something especially ghoulish. They forced Kevin and his team to train their foreign replacements as a condition of getting severance. Then they laid him off the day he finished.
Kevin walked out to his pickup truck in the parking lot, sat beside his sad boxed-up cubicle of personal effects, and blew his brains out with a 12-gauge shotgun.
His grieving father said losing that job, and the circumstances of the despicable walking of the plank BofA forced on him, was the deciding factor in Kevin’s decision.
Back in 2003, this kind of systematic humiliation wasn’t normalized yet. The demoralization of White American men was still in its infancy. This was an outlier. Being forced to hand over your own livelihood to a cheaper imported body hadn’t become routine.
What shocked people then is now just the baseline. That gruesome warning went unheeded. Since those days, millions of foreign-born workers have been brought in to replace domestic tech labor and spread to other sectors.
Big tech and outsourcing giants pervert the visa process, abuse Americans, and bring in cheaper, sometimes exploited labor. It rewards fraud, kickbacks, nepotism, anti-white racism. By now they’ve taken over entire departments and whole companies in some cases.
Fact-check it yourself: “Roughly 89.5% of all net new jobs added to the US workforce post-COVID went to foreign-born individuals.”
The scale of this displacement is staggering. The betrayal, radicalizing. And Republican or Democrat, number go only up.
It’s reasonable to assume there are thousands of Kevin’s out there: careers gutted, homes lost, marriages strained under forced obsolescence. Even entry-level and junior roles for new grads get cannibalized.
The greatest insult? We still push families to pay hundreds of thousands for a degree, while the same universities and corporations that were supposed to prepare them turn around and hire from two oceans away. They lie that American graduates aren’t skilled enough, but they were the ones tasked with educating them. Meanwhile H-1B applications show up for everything from “7-11 Cashier” to “Assistant Hockey Coach.” The game is being rigged right in front of our faces.
How many more Kevin’s? How many more lives destroyed before our corporate leaders, universities, and elected officials will actually care enough to stop selling out their own people?