Caveat: If you are not American, a natural citizen, or even a second generation immigrant; please refrain from suppressing dissenting opinion I am expressing below, which you will surely not like. Also, man, this got long in short order. But it's an important topic.

Now if they could just learn to properly speak English. I know that sounds like something an asshole says, but it's really an issue that should not be overlooked just because someone has been trained to be politically correct and for some reason accept poor language skills by one group of people, yet not from another. Would you be ok with a black person that speaks "ebonics" but is otherwise equally competent?

In reality it is a significant issue because you frequently simply cannot understand those of Indian descent unless they have been in the USA for at least a generation. It's not really limited to Indians, it also and ever more frequently applies to Chinese, but they are not the subject of this article. There are whole departments in tech companies that are staffed with essentially nothing but Indians who speak various Indian languages among each other and have such strong dialects when speaking English that it is almost impossible to understand them. There is even explicit discrimination going on in those kinds of companies that prevents someone like a "real American", a person who speaks English to a satisfactory and comprehensible degree from being hired. Are you going to work with a whole department of Indians that speak a foreign language to each other and actively ostracize you? Are you even going to get an interview as a Duane, Chad, Becky, Omar, Mercedes, Juliana, Marcos, etc.?

This rise of the "burgeoning new elite" is just another symptom of the corporate and elite sell out of America. Indians were allowed to immigrate to the USA through various visa programs in order to quickly bolster corporate tech capacity on the cheap due to the ramifications of incompetent investments in education and insufficient support for engaging our poor and under-educated people. Essentially, America's corporate overlords took the easy route and sold out Americans by kicking the can down the road. What they did was the equivalent of taking out car title and pay day loans in order to fund their lavish lifestyles of exploitation.

What should become more and more apparent to people, although I don't see any real signs of it happening or grabbing hold, is that America is nothing but a big feeding frenzy by the wealthy and powerful. There really is no sense of culture and society worth mentioning. As upsetting as that notion is, what we consider American and defining of our culture is really just all expression corporate interests and exploitation.

What people don't quite get about America, even the 99%ers of Americans, is that although the economy is of course not a zero sum game, it is a limited game that can be represented by the ever popular pie, but where the pie represents a ratio of wealth and income. Or, another way of putting it, you can think of it as an ever replenishing pie. Do you have your mental model and visualization in place? Ok, let me explain.

The thing about America is that there is a defined barrier, a gated community, if you will, between the 1% and 99% and that barrier has been erected in such a manner that 99% of the ever replenishing parts of the pie go to the 1%, or simply that the 1% get 99% of the pie and the rest of the 99% have to share a single sliver of 100 pieces that the pie is cut into. The problem with immigration, whether illegal laborers or H1B, is that they are all dumped into the same pool of 99% that have to share that one single tiny sliver of pie of the 100 pieces that the pie has been cut into, which makes getting ahead or increasing income next to impossible.

Sure there are outliers and exceptions, and I am sure that the "success" of these "burgeoning new elite" would be cited as counter arguments, but the rule simply is that under normal circumstances it is next to impossible to make headway when immigrants keep getting dumped into the labor pool, whether it be construction, manufacturing, agriculture, service, or even all the tech jobs. That is the real reason why not only poor people in America can't make any headway and also why students are being buried under student loan debt while the prospective wages they can earn with the degree they hold has been driving down by cheap H1B tech labor and outsourcing.

These are real consequences of immigration. I know that we all have been indoctrinated to love the shit out of some immigration because it has always been critical to the American elite to further their agenda of exploitation and domination, but reality is that what you have been led to believe is counter-productive to your own self-interest. And to think there are some people who don't believe that people will act against their own self interest.