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Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by horns4lyfe »

ttul wrote: post #76

There is actually a sensible way to do recruit foreign workers to fill jobs that locals for some reason can't fill, and it's just a few miles up north... Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) is not limited by annual caps or lotteries. You just apply (as a company) by filling in a few simple forms and posting a job in the "Canada Job Bank" for a period of time to demonstrate that you genuinely searched for…

There’s nothing remotely sensible about what Canada has done to allow Indian ethnic cartels to take over their job market

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by losvedir »

apt-apt-apt-apt wrote: post #82

Misleading title, implies national but only for one state

No, the article has an Alaska focus because it's some Alaskan news agency, but I believe it's a nation-wide block. The judge in question is based in Massachusetts.

Side note, but I'm sort of surprised that this "level" of judge (I think there's almost 700 of them in the country) is able to block these orders. It seems like almost no executive order is possible if you need a unanimous agreement of 700 people.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by throwaway85825 »

janalsncm wrote: post #91
randyrand wrote: post #58

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There are an excess of teachers in the USA already. It’s a big reason they aren’t paid that well. No good reason to import them except to pay them even less .

Is there an excess of teachers in Alaska? I can understand why rural schools would need H1Bs. They would probably need to pay a premium to attract teachers from out of state, not to mention Alaska. And rural schools are the least able to actually do that. Maybe if the current admin really wants to keep the $100k fee, they can extend an olive branch by either waiving the fee or helping to fund American teachers to mov…

There's as many teachers in Alaska as they're willing to pay for.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by pastel8739 »

nemomarx wrote: post #63
cryptoegorophy wrote: post #51

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Not from USA, is there shortage of teachers in USA? Or government pays too little to have local teachers consider such jobs? Seems like a broken system

Teacher pay is low, but it also requires certification and a degree. And in exchange it will be relatively stressful and lacking in prestige.

And long hours!

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by BenFranklin100 »

Dig1t wrote: post #77
BenFranklin100 wrote: post #22

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First, I think the H1B does need genuine reform to keep the big companies from gaming the lottery system. Having said that, I’m not sure banning H1Bs or immigrants in general is going to help American workers. Take tech for instance. Many tech leaders are immigrants. If they hasn’t taken in the Jensen Huang’s, Sergei Brin’s, Sundar Pichai, etc… the companies they lead and jobs they created would be elsewhere. It’s am…

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“It was built by Americans and regardless would have continued to be built by Americans.”

The xenophobic ignorance of this sentence is breathtaking. America, of all places, is a nation built precisely by immigrants.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by naturalmovement »

bijowo1676 wrote: post #80
svachalek wrote: post #42

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The H-1B visa is specifically for hiring "highly specialized" workers. Lack of the supposed skills that let them across the border is in fact a legal issue.

H1Bs are not hired for their knowledge of english, however you can define it. They are hired for specialized occupational skills

Skills which, with very few exceptions, are conducted in English.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by throwaway85825 »

bijowo1676 wrote: post #97
jojobas wrote: post #84

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I find your reference to "third worlders" a bit offensive and racist. "First worlders" (whatever that means for you) also do apply for H1B visas, just FYI. If you imply that teachers on visa are somehow inferior or worse then citizen teachers (non-existent btw since noone is volunteering for Alaska gig), you are either being terribly misinformed or just bigoted.

With foreign accents its often hard to understand what's being said, and harder when there's a whole class and the student doesnt want to be disruptive.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by jojobas »

culopatin wrote: post #85
jojobas wrote: post #66

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Hardly an argument to import teachers on work visas.

It’s a matter of incentives. The avg American grows up with certain “American dream” that clashes with that rural America life. There is no incentive to leave everything behind and go be basically alone. Immigrants have a “lower” baseline or just want the experience of being abroad, or are willing to put up with rural living because from wherever they are, it looks better. You’d have to entice a city teacher to move…

Teachers were like 4% of all H1Bs. Using CS/AI H1B proceeds to increase pay to rural teachers more seems like a no-brainer. The current Alaskan teacher pay seems to be below median, which seems like an good threshold to disallow H1B workers altogether.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by throwaway85825 »

JCTheDenthog wrote: post #17
variety8675 wrote: post #11

There must be a better way to prevent the consulting firms from abusing this program

Rigorous examinations for English fluency and for competency in their alleged field of expertise would be a good start. I have several H1B coworkers in the US who barely speak intelligible English, and who barely understand normal conversation let alone anything technical. A blatant example of this that I experienced recently being that several of them could not understand that just because a method in C# is asynchro…

Any legal barrier will just be cheated around.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by cguess »

JCTheDenthog wrote: post #35
cguess wrote: post #25

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This is a hiring issue, not a legal one. The US has no official language, and no language tests, so requiring English in law would be dicey to put it mildly. What if I'm hiring someone specifically to work at a Spanish language news outlet?

>What if I'm hiring someone specifically to work at a Spanish language news outlet? Having actually worked at a Spanish language news outlet before (1 of 4 tv and radio stations in the office I was doing IT help desk work in), I can tell you that every single employee spoke English somewhere on the level of very good to near native fluency. As it turns out, knowing English (or the native language of whatever country…

Again, this is a hiring issue, not a legal one. You want to make it against the law for your boss to hire bad managers?
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