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Federal judge rules Trump’s $100,000 fee for H-1B visas unlawful
(www.theguardian.com)
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Stopped clock is right twice a day. This was one of them.
I don’t see this as stopping H1-Bs. I see this as “I want a cut of that action.”
The $100,000 fee is yet another tactic being used to restrict already heavily limited means of legally emigrating to the U.S.
H1Bs are temporary. You can apply for a green card while on an H1B, though that's not the intent. H1Bs bring immigrants in to pay them dirt, suppress wages for citizens, then send them back and bring in the next wave.
Green card application, if you go for it, also requires that you remain in your current position until the multi-year process is done. So promotions are out of the question and goos luck getting any raises. Have an issue with work treating you like a dog? Have fun picking up your family and moving back overseas.
Meanwhile US citizens need to compete with desperate immigrants being paid half as much as an American worker.
The pay is roughly similar. The law was written to try to prevent that part.
It's the near slavery and coercion part that they get excited about. When Twitter went to shit guess who stayed? The people who would be deported otherwise.
Not in practice it isn't. It's always significantly lower than what the people they fire to open a spot for it made.
oh yea they can fire you and threaten you at any time.
the only reason trump is keeping it around because musk and all the tech bros need to replace the layoffs staff.
H1B has to be renewed annually.