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It's a tough choice. I'm sure this will do wonders for American industry.
We have plenty of qualified technical workers, too many in fact. This visa program was to bring in foreigners and underpay them while treating them as slaves.
What other countries have non-austere/lax immigration policies? Name some.
Anyone coming in with zero context would say this guy is short selling against the US and setting it up to fail.
But we're talking about the cunt who bankrupted casinos.
It's not a fee on application it's an annual fee. I can't see this being used for anything except extremely highly qualified technical positions.
Which is exactly what H1Bs are supposed to be for.
They really wanna piledrive it into the floor, don't they...
Stop, Skeletor; you don't know what you're doing...
Do you not understand these particular visas? The companies bring people in, underpay them, then treat them like slaves. All because "We can't find qualified Americans!" All while jobs in the tech sector are crashing. Dipshit accidentally pulled a good move.
I agree about the visas. The problem is the constant uncertainty and chaos. And similar to the situation with undocumented labour: huge chunks of the American economic system are predicated on exploitation. There are right ways and wrong ways to correct it... But this is neither. No one wins.
From jobs to housing to crime to inflation to foreign policy: compared to what trump has been doing, it would be difficult to damage the country more if you tried.
Except he can exempt his friends. He looks got to MAGA, while forcing all the big tech companies to bend the knee. AWS won't deplatfom someone who criticized Trump, guess who needs to start paying their H1-B fees. Apple won't kick an app off the app store, fees kick in.
Demoracy is fucked.
May work well work out that way, but Silicon Valley as a whole bent the knee, and now he does this to them?
You're surprised that Trump isn't paying his debts?
it would ask companies to pay $100,000 per year for H-1B worker visas
I wonder if it'd have some caveats, like a maximum of 100 visas per year.
Roughly two-thirds of jobs secured through the H1-B program are computer-related, (...) India was the largest beneficiary of H-1B visas last year, accounting for 71% of approved beneficiaries, while China was a distant second at 11.7%,