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Trump sides with Musk in H-1B fight
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All the Trump/Musk hate aside, this is the correct decision in this case. So good job, broken clock.
It absolutely isn't. H1B visa holders are basically indentured servents. It's an absolutely awful policy to tie immigration to a persons employment status with a specific employer (or another employer willing to accept the paperwork of maintaining H1B employees which you must find rapidly of you lose your job).
We have skill based immigration and I'd much rather these H1B applicants got in under that and could choose to move jobs if their employer is abusive. As it is many H1B visa holders end up trapped in underpaid overworked positions for fear of needing to suddenly relocate their lives again.
Agreed. If donvict ended H-1B, it would probably end up being the only good thing he ever did. Ideally, it'd be ended, then augmented with some system that expedites encouraging/getting people here and having permanent status, with no ties to any corporations.
That second part I doubt donvict would do because he's a racist, but if H-1B was ended, we'd see what kind of pressure builds up to balance things out by permanent immigration. If it becomes a real need where talent for things like programming hits some breaking point[1], companies can lobby to have immigration expedited w/o indentured servitude. Let's see if they do that...
[1] again, even typing this out...LOL. How many people are/were being cranked out of coding bootcamps? Did all those people disappear? Where are all the people getting laid off going? If the industry would stop discarding people past some stupid arbitrary cut-off on age - egregious, pervasive ageism is NORMALIZED within the software industry - if you want everyone to have 10 years experience with a certain constantly shifting set of tools/languages, but want them in their twenties, with no spouse and no kids and no other obligations, willing to work wayyyyy beyond 40 hours for no compensation, you've just done a self-own and have no one to blame but yourself. Going out to industry press/social media/government and declaring that you cannot find the talent locally is obviously concocted BS.
I now know so many people that have been chewed up and spit out by the industry and mostly it's because they were too unwise to do a very human thing and age beyond their mid-30s. It gets sharply worse in the 50s. Not because they don't have the education and the experience. It's because they have a life outside of work, have relevant experiences they can bring to bear (making younger management often look bad in that process) and are not quite so malleable as someone in their early 20s.
Ok, so the MAGA people are correct?
It's not that they're correct - they just happened to be on the right side of this issue for terrible reasons.
I want skilled immigrants to have more rights - they want them to not exist - both I and a lot of MAGA folks think H1B visas are bad but for extremely different reasons.