Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

Post by bijowo1676 » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 2:22 AM UTC

jojobas wrote: post #108

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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.

Post by bijowo1676 » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 2:24 AM UTC

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bijowo1676 wrote: post #129

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If you are willing to discuss and argue with arguments, I can prove that the whole critique of H1B is nothing more than racism, hatred, and bigotry, from the people who are worst and least qualified to talk about the subject

Surely the malicious compliant job ads are proof positive that everything is above board.

Post by throwaway85825 » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 2:27 AM UTC

bijowo1676 wrote: post #133

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Surely the malicious compliant job ads are proof positive that everything is above board.

job ads in local paper are requirement by the DOL. it is a goodwill compliance, not malicious. You are again just being racist and uneducated about the subject and reasons for that requirement

Post by anon-3988 » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 2:29 AM UTC

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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 .

I hear this argument all the time. There's an excess of this, there's an excess of that. Seems it only comes from people who are not directly involved in hiring of such roles. We hired for an analyst role few months ago in the bay area and there was no qualified American applicants. My wife is in pavement consultancy and they hardly ever find qualified Americans for pavement design jobs.

Post by bijowo1676 » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 2:35 AM UTC

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But evidently they don’t want to move to rural America.

Rural Alaska... Just about the most inhospitable climate in the US, remote, and with a very high cost of living. Teachers can find work just about anywhere, they have little incentive to stay in Alaska. The solution for this is simple - pay them more. There are plenty of recently graduated teachers who would work in Alaska for a few years if it paid off their student loans or let them save up a down payment on a hous…