College students cannot find jobs, yet America is issuing more and more work visas to non-citizens. Something does not make sense here.
58% of students who graduated within the past year are still looking for a job, per FORTUNE
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 17, 2025
LinkedIn's Raman compared the current disruption to the collapse of manufacturing jobs in the 1980s.
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 19, 2025
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As millions of students prepare to graduate this spring, their chances of landing that crucial first job—the one that kickstarts a career—appear increasingly uncertain.
Beyond a cooling economy burdened by tariff-related uncertainty, the rise of artificial intelligence is now threatening the entry-level roles that have long functioned as gateways into the workforce, according to Aneesh Raman, LinkedIn’s chief economic opportunity officer. In a recent op-ed for The New York Times, Raman compared the current disruption to the collapse of manufacturing jobs in the 1980s.
“Now it is our office workers who are staring down the same kind of technological and economic disruption,” he wrote. “Breaking first is the bottom rung of the career ladder.”
Many entry-level duties—once handled by junior staff as on-the-job training—are now being performed by AI. For instance, junior software developers once spent time learning through simple coding and debugging; now, those tasks are often handled by AI tools. Similar displacement is occurring in fields like law, retail, and even finance, where Wall Street firms are reportedly slashing entry-level hiring.
Raman also pointed to the recent trend of rising unemployment among college graduates—outpacing that of other demographics—as a sign of weakening job prospects, though he cautioned that there’s not yet definitive evidence linking the trend directly to AI.
Still, Raman emphasized that entry-level work isn’t vanishing entirely. Executives continue to value fresh perspectives from younger workers, and in some cases, AI is freeing up junior staff to take on more meaningful and challenging tasks earlier in their careers.
Maybe it's time to freeze the work visas and open up the jobs to American citizens.
Yet again, half the replies are echoing the tired stereotype that most college grads deserve to be unemployed because they majored in "useless" subjects. That's just not the reality. Sure some degrees are less practical than others, but even the new grads who majored in hard… https://t.co/oB7svFrC0T pic.twitter.com/aAIL8NZ6lZ
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) October 27, 2025
It's not just students who majored in gender studies or underwater basketweaving. Students who majored in tech careers are being left out in the cold. Those are exactly the jobs being outsourced. Why? They can pay the employees less and provide next to no benefits.
How is it possible to justify work visas with numbers like this? https://t.co/F96Mlbpu5H
— Michael Sebastian (@HonorAndDaring) October 26, 2025
There is no justification for it.
Meanwhile, there are 700,000 foreign H-1Bs in America—filling many jobs that could be held by recent college grads who are American citizens.
— James Fishback (@j_fishback) October 27, 2025
Step 1: dismantle the H-1B program.
Step 2: Complete immigration moratorium. https://t.co/n4vKpPnH58
There needs to be a complete shutdown of it all until there are opportunities to hire Americans first.
