Work Visa Rejections Spike Under Trump.

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Vic

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No you fucking halfwit dipshit. Do half - EVEN A QUARTER bit of research instead of living in your own self gratification candy land. The H1-B program is a HIGHLY abused program that is used by employers to bring in cheap temporary labor in order to avoid paying LEGAL AMERICANS (including immigrants) a reasonable rate for their skills.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-h-1b-visas-have-been-abused-since-the-beginning/

Whoa, you triggered, bro?

What is my 'self-gratification candy land?' Is that where I have to suffer abuse from a moron on the internet who doesn't understand basic econ? Who uses terms like 'LEGAL AMERICANS' and 'reasonable rate' without understanding that the market for these skills is global and that no amount of right wing anti-capitalist protectionism can change that?
 
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For people like Vic that are too slow to understand how government programs can be abused...

This actually has resulted in LOSS of american jobs. They basically send people from India - then the person from India trains people back home in India... before outsourcing the jobs entirely. Seems like a great benefit eh?

 
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Where did I argue in favor of the abuse of this program?

READ You fucking moron. Is it really that difficult? Abuse is essentially ALL that H-1B comprises of. The majority of 65k lottery is given to large consulting practices - where they basically do mass applications.
 

Vic

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READ You fucking moron. Is it really that difficult? Abuse is essentially ALL that H-1B comprises of. The majority of 65k lottery is given to large consulting practices - where they basically do mass applications.
Cool then. Let's turn it off then so that all of those jobs can go elsewhere, so that they can spend those salaries elsewhere.
 
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cytg111

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Nah. Russians are usually very good at math. They are bad at life. They wish they were Americans and since they can't be want to see us destroyed. Just like the modern day conservaterrorist Trump supporter. Their hate for God and Country knows no equal...

No. Russians are just caught up in Putins mafia state, where the equivalent to Fox news is running 10x worse. Russians wants to be free too. And travel to Europe. And America. And .... but alas... Putin is a warwhore who is dead set on bringing it to a confrontation or at the very least install his idea of governmentship around the globe. Mafia. State.
 

cytg111

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READ You fucking moron. Is it really that difficult? Abuse is essentially ALL that H-1B comprises of. The majority of 65k lottery is given to large consulting practices - where they basically do mass applications.

In the EU there is laws that dictate that for the workforce you import you must give the same pay and benefits as the local. I think its a good trade off .. On the one hand the local workforce cant drive prices to the sky in a supply demand scenario and at the same time, if there is local talent that is still preferable. As the top 0.1% to 1% wealthiest people on the planet we will have to share a little.. Plus progressive globalism, lets mix it up.
 

umbrella39

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No. Russians are just caught up in Putins mafia state, where the equivalent to Fox news is running 10x worse. Russians wants to be free too. And travel to Europe. And America. And .... but alas... Putin is a warwhore who is dead set on bringing it to a confrontation or at the very least install his idea of governmentship around the globe. Mafia. State.

There is a lot of truth to your statement and is true for I am sure the vast majority of Russians. Not the ones that post here, though... It's just sometimes fun to poke the bear with a stick... His fur coat is clearly thicker than his thin skin :)
 

Starbuck1975

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Didn't we already have a talk earlier today about how stupid and irrational it is to frame your opponents' argument into some absurd (and obviously false) straw man just so you can pretend to claim an emotional victory?
H1B visas aren't about illegals coming to take your job. It's about making sure that, when companies are only interested in getting the best talent there is, that they bring that talent here to the US, so that their salaries are spent here in the US, buying homes in the US, etc. Rather than those companies parking that talent somewhere else, spending their salaries there, etc.
Except that isn’t what is happening. The business model of offshoring coding jobs to India does have its limits in terms of team performance and project management. Also, rising wages in India started to offset the financial advantages.

When outsourcing hits the wall, the next best thing is to bring over talent that is willing to work at a fraction of what comparable talent in the United States can demand.

I know a lot of competent IT services people “asked” to “retire early” because they were senior employees with high salaries. This is about displacement, not skill or labor shortages.
 
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SlowSpyder

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So let me ask your opinion, what is the point of this article then? If the same limit is reached year after year and again last year, there are just more applicants applying for the same limited number of work visas, than why is this article titled, "
VISA REJECTIONS FOR TECH WORKERS SPIKE UNDER TRUMP"? Would seem they are going for a bit of negative spin. Fake news?


Does anyone want to comment on this fake news article? Sure sounds like it was titled with the intent of anti-Trump bias. There is a lot of anti-Trump fake news out there...
 

dank69

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Somebody is talking to himself. The best part is he seems to be outraged about people starting deliberate troll threads.
 

Indus

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For people like Vic that are too slow to understand how government programs can be abused...

This actually has resulted in LOSS of american jobs. They basically send people from India - then the person from India trains people back home in India... before outsourcing the jobs entirely. Seems like a great benefit eh?


That has pissed me off for a long time but not all H1B visas are like that.

I'd like to personally make a no limit on H1B visas but increase salary to 5 million per year minimum. That way it's not replacing US workers but if there is a major need for overseas talent, there is a way.
 

senseamp

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Everyone commenting here is doing so using computer or phone chips designed mostly by people who came to the US on H1B visas. Not MAGA wearing folks in the great plains, sorry.
 
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Indus

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Everyone commenting here is doing so using computer or phone chips designed mostly by people who came to the US on H1B visas. Not MAGA wearing folks in the great plains, sorry.

Even the USB port to connect devices or recharge phones is like that
 
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Jhhnn

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How fucking over honest people doing the right thing degenerates into bitching about H1B visas in general is symptomatic of Trumpian immigration fuckovers in general. The family in the OP hasn't done anything wrong, but fuck 'em anyway. Fuck the Dreamers, the Salvadoran refugees here since 2001, old Vietnamese refugees who screwed up 40 years ago & anybody else they can bend over the log. It's all about fucking the furriners, the not really Americans, along with their American citizen children, too. Immigrant tears are even tastier than libruhl tears because they can be fucked even harder.

If the Trump admin wants to deny new H1B visas in general that's not terribly unreasonable but fucking over people who are already here is just plain wrong.
 
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How fucking over honest people doing the right thing degenerates into bitching about H1B visas in general is symptomatic of Trumpian immigration fuckovers in general.

Damn, I didn't know that PBS was a hardline right-wing pundit news broadcaster.
 

Jhhnn

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Damn, I didn't know that PBS was a hardline right-wing pundit news broadcaster.

I never claimed they were. Perhaps you'd care to defend the value system underlying the treatment of the family in the OP. Tell us what's right about it.
 
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US has to be the only country upset that the best and brightest from around the world are flocking there.
Best and the brightest lol. Watch that PBS bit you halfwit. You fucking idiots keep making assertions over something that you have zero research or understanding of. I honestly hope you lose your job to an H-1B so you have half an ounce of understanding and compassion for actual Americans and actual immigrants.

These aren't doctors, and they aren't qualified technicians with 10 years of experience. These are stupid kids straight out of college with 0 technical or industry knowledge.
 

zinfamous

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Best and the brightest lol. Watch that PBS bit you halfwit. You fucking idiots keep making assertions over something that you have zero research or understanding of. I honestly hope you lose your job to an H-1B so you have half an ounce of understanding and compassion for actual Americans and actual immigrants.

These aren't doctors, and they aren't qualified technicians with 10 years of experience. These are stupid kids straight out of college with 0 technical or industry knowledge.

many of them are grad students and postdocs. they aren't "Stupid kids with no experience." I am sure that every single one of them is vastly smarter than you, in fact, and certainly provide far more benefit to society than you possibly ever could.
 
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[DHT]Osiris

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many of them are grad students and postdocs. they aren't "Stupid kids with no experience." I am sure that every single one of them is vastly smarter than you, in fact, and certainly provide far more benefit to society than you possibly ever could.
I may not disagree with you regarding @s0me0nesmind1, but in the IT realm at least the H1B program is/was often (note: not always) abused specifically to bring in low-paid IT workers to replace others, because they were cheaper than Americans and would essentially be trapped in an indentured-servitude situation. I do not know if this is still 'a thing', though, as outsourcing may have just overwhelmed it.
 

Jhhnn

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Best and the brightest lol. Watch that PBS bit you halfwit. You fucking idiots keep making assertions over something that you have zero research or understanding of. I honestly hope you lose your job to an H-1B so you have half an ounce of understanding and compassion for actual Americans and actual immigrants.

These aren't doctors, and they aren't qualified technicians with 10 years of experience. These are stupid kids straight out of college with 0 technical or industry knowledge.

Keep duh-verting.
 

blackangst1

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It's not about talent. There's plenty of that in America. We've just neglected our primary education system rather badly & failed to identify & exploit the talent we have.

The education systems in other countries provide plenty of talent for our Capitalists so why should they pay more in taxes to rebuild our system from the ground up? I mean, shee-it. Their kids go to private schools, anyway.

It *is* about talent, and the lack thereof. Youre lying to yourself if you think otherwise.
 

blackangst1

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That's not relevant to what the Trump admin is doing. It's wrong to deport existing holders of H1B visas when they've done nothing wrong. It's wrong to fuck with a lot of the people the Trump admin is fucking with. It's deliberate cruelty serving no honest or honorable goals whatsoever.

You understand the US is lenient compared to much of the rest of the civilized world...right?\

No. no you dont.