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- When you can’t beat illegal migration, just make legal migration more difficult, works like a charm every time.by runicelf
- Perhaps the most personally impactful positive change that a president has ever enacted in my lifetime. Bravo. Trump is fucking up a lot, but this is a win for all American tech workers.by eudamoniac
- Good. What’s happening now in the corporate world (and other places) is very distasteful. Americans shouldn’t have to compete against the whole world to get a job in the USA
- And companies shouldnt lie and say "we just can't find people!"by gosub100
- > Americans shouldn’t have to compete against the whole world to get a job in the USA
Milton Friedman would have a couple of things to say about that
by mattrighetti - Why not? Let the Free Market decide.
If Americans can’t compete on merit, that’s their own fault. We don’t need reverse DEI.
I thought the argument and attacks on DEI policies were about not hiring solely based on merit.
Now you’re asking for a safe space where unqualified Americans get jobs over more qualified candidates.
by iAMkenough - I forgot where I heard this, but the thought is that if a country takes the world's best and brightest, it means those other countries that they are coming from lose their best and brightest, making it harder for those other countries to succeed.by rationalist
- In other words, companies who rely on H1B visas are not donating enough to Trump 2028 or the Republican party.
- Elon has been trying, he is not putting in money for the midterms for his health. Tim brought him a statue of gold....
This is not due to bribery. Everyone using H1B have already done the bribing.
The Republican base is demanding this. They want jobs for themselves and their kids.
by budman1 - I vote for Democrats. Sad they didn't step up for American tech workers though, and the guy shitting himself did.by bellowsgulch
- why?by the_optimist
- Wasn't this struck down because by law the Federal Government can only charge the cost of producing a visa? The amount cannot be arbitrary in any way.
Or has the Trump Administration found a workaround for this?
by hn_submit - There's an attempt under "Cost Basis" to justify the cost.
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The proposed ~$8.78B/year in H-1B fee revenue would be allocated roughly as follows:
USCIS: $3.00B (34.2%)
EOIR / immigration courts: $2.96B (33.7%)
DOL: $1.21B (13.8%)
ICE: $1.05B (11.9%)
State Department: $484M (5.5%)
CBP: $76.2M (0.9%)
Total: ~$8.78B/year
> Notably, only $79.2M of the $8.78B is specifically allocated to DOL's H-1B program.
- The workaround is not caring and doing it anyways, letting the taxpayers pay for endless appealsby iAMkenough
- All Canada needs to do to become the center of innovation now is to... become 10°C warmer.by throwa356262
- They're getting a nice assist from global warming.by jerlam
- This is why their forests are currently burningby whoamii
- Warmer would help, but the latitude difference still gets you on sun height and hours of daylight in the winter months.by _aavaa_
- This is a nice trick. Since SCOTUS barred universal injunctions, the government can implement whatever batshit ideology they want until the case makes its way through the judicial system. Often that is a year or two. And even if it is eventually vacated, like the tariffs or the previous iteration of this fee, the damage is already done, as you cannot go back in time.by bubblethink
- Irreparable damage for thee, not Mee
- Most likely these companies will set up GCCs offshore. Moving the jobs abroad.
Whatever tax and living + lifestyle expenses that USA economy was making from H1B's will be gone.
Good for the rest of the world.
by wtfHN26 - The government can penalize companies for doing so.