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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 saltyoldman »

bijowo1676 wrote: post #165
throwawaytea wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My gf makes about $90k a year, tons of time off, at 35 years old in a California public school. If she wasn't a teacher, she admits she'd probably be a cop or 911 dispatcher, because government gigs are what her entire extended family recommends. She has trouble adding 50 cents to 75 cents, but luckily she only teaches English and social studies to middle schoolers.

I have a kid who just graduated elementary and is about to enter Middle school. Your post actually explains why every single classmate of my daughter has enrolled in private middle school ($50k+ tuition), despite being in the best school district (Palo Alto School District). Apparently public middle schools are really bad in California, but you can still find decent high and elementary schools All top private middle…

What happened was there were a lot of boomers that taught my generation in the bay area. So when I was in high school around 94-98 the teachers were typically 40-50ish year old boomer generation. These people were pretty good at teaching. Mostly white. As generation X started getting into the game, and bureaucratic processes the introduced "core" and "new math". Both pretty bad. I was in the middle of the transition so I did get pre-new-math as well.

What happened next? Well pretty much all of us got jobs at Google, Apple and other places. The only way for any of us to have stayed in teaching would have been major compromises. We decimated the teaching industry because it didn't realize the salaries these companies were waiting to pay us. They had no chance.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by brudgers »

lokar wrote: post #169
brudgers wrote: post #71

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Rural Alaska is by and large very very remote. Often small plane is the only practical access and then only in favorable weather. Recruiting teachers to remote villages with extreme weather is hard and if you are at US university training to be a teacher you will probably have other options that are more attractive as a young person.

Even anchorage is pretty bad

Yes, I mean there is basically one road to Alaska and from the nearest major US city (Seattle) it is 3600km to Anchorage…about the same distance as Barcelona to Moscow but entirely through sparsely or unpopulated wilderness.

And Seattle is a long way from most of the US…another 3300km from Chicago.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by parrellel »

newfriend wrote: post #163
parrellel wrote: post #43

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I don't believe Trump's wacko EOs are binding law. Like, the Gulf of Mexico is still the Gulf of Mexico. The DoD is still the DoD. No reason to give the fascist LARPers the respect. Just don't give the poor clerk forced to regurgitate the junk a hard time.

or DACA?

Honestly, Executive Orders in general are dysfunctional cludge. I feel less bad about things like DACA, since that's trying to fix something broken instead of wrecking things for no useful reason (or acting to puff up a sick ego) ... but hell no, that should have been a proper law.

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Post by protocolture »

WorkerBee28474 wrote: post #158
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…

Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program is a horrible program that has been flagrantly abused for years to the detriment of Canadians. There's record high youth unemployment yet every Tim Hortons is filled with Indians.

Oh wont somebody please think of the Tim Hortons.

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Post by fc417fc802 »

rayiner wrote: post #176

I’m going to call this one as likely to be overturned on appeal. The Immigration and Naturalization Act provides: “Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigran…

I'm in agreement with your position but I'm confused by the SCOTUS criteria for distinguishing taxes and fees. I follow the reasoning that you receive a tangible benefit as an individual for payment of a fee. That much makes sense to me. However what puzzles me is "By contrast, ‘taxes’ are expected to ‘inure[] to the benefit’ of the wider public." Do not fees also benefit the wider public to the extent that they fund the government? I'm failing to see any difference in that regard.

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Post by redserk »

throwaway85825 wrote: post #166
allarm wrote: post #156

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It doesn't matter how much money you have if you can't spend it.

That applies to a ton of people in the military. People are capable of delayed gratification.

Repeating trite platitudes only makes your argument sound weak and tired.

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Post by QGQBGdeZREunxLe »

naturalmovement wrote: post #93
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…

> 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 locals to fill the role and couldn't find anyone suitable This is anathema to tech H1B abusers, which is why they post these jobs in obscure print publications no one reads, to deliberately conceal their existence, while meeting the legal requirement. Unfortunately for them…

You're confusing H1B with PERM. H1B has no job posting requirements.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/62o-h1b-recruit...

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Post by annzabelle »

SXX wrote: post #164
jameson wrote: post #111

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I'm sure the supply will go up if extra $$$ is paid.

Except you'll have to spend way more than $100,000 to incentify US citizen from a city to move there and stay. And they not gonna have the same near slave H1B conditions where changing their job is just impossible.. H1B workers in IT even have an option to find a new visa sponsor, but nobody needs foreign teacher with H1B in California or Texas or basically anywhere else.

I have to wonder if some kind of fly in fly out arrangement like is used for a lot of other jobs in undesirable locations would work. I've got a friend who's a nurse/paramedic in an indigenous community in the australian outback, and he works 6 weeks in the community with a per diem and company house, and then has 6 weeks to travel or live in Brisbane between stints. A school could do quarterly swaps of teachers, so there's a Q1/Q3 teacher and a Q2/Q4 teacher each working 9 weeks at a time.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by QGQBGdeZREunxLe »

jameson wrote: post #111
horns4lyfe wrote: post #96

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That’s not even remotely the case. We just don’t have enough people willing to move to rural Alaska.

I'm sure the supply will go up if extra $$$ is paid.

Not sure Alaska with it's threadbare tax regime is going to do that.
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