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Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately

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Re: Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately

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Post by Ar-Curunir »

jacquesm wrote: post #26
drooopy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you suggesting that people who potentially moved to the US for employment perhaps from the other side of the globe, give everything up immediately and make a 180 and find a new job in another country? Do you have some examples as to how this could work?

No, but it is practical: you can consider your life in the US and what you've built up there as an immigrant pretty much lost or at least hanging by a silken thread that can be capriciously cut at any moment. This all depends on the whims of the dictator. Almost anything is better than that. Remember that the purpose of the Berlin wall was not to keep the West out but to keep the East in . You're at the stage where '…

Can you propose a plan to do that in the span of a weekend?

Re: Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

ben_w wrote: post #94
add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think this is a bill, just part of a series of proclamations he sprays around to get tied up in courts and then revoked by the next adult in the office. Legislation takes serious time and work and discipline, but it can be lasting in a way this isn't. This is a failed marshmallow test.

I don't know @jacquesm's intent, but I read "bill" as in "invoice", not as in "proposed new law".

Oh, gotcha.

Re: Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately

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Post by the_gastropod »

stronglikedan wrote: post #45
tom89999 wrote: post #24

Get your relatives and family out of this shithole and start a new life somewhere else. Why paying taxes for fat crooks? Why working your ass off for major companiel that dont pay taxes? I more and more understand people leaving their home country.

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By what measure?

Re: Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately

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Post by lotsofpulp »

jacquesm wrote: post #27
Muromec wrote: post #20

This is not what functioning bureaucracy in a functioning democracy looks like.

The democracy stopped functioning a while ago, this is just the bills being presented.

Unless you mean the electoral college overriding popular vote nonsense, and disproportionate Senate power, which was there since the beginning, I don't know what you mean.

The voters apparently wanted more of this per the Nov 2024 elections, when we still had a credible election process.

Re: Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately

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Post by more_corn »

jacquesm wrote: post #27
Muromec wrote: post #20

This is not what functioning bureaucracy in a functioning democracy looks like.

The democracy stopped functioning a while ago, this is just the bills being presented.

Yeah, earlier this year. Or so you mean that time he sent a mob to prevent certification of a fair election?

Re: Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately

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Post by JBorrow »

taminka wrote: post #75
JBorrow wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many people on H1Bs work for nonprofits or hospitals, or are otherwise publicly funded.

only a very small percentage i think, for example only 4.2% work anywhere in the medical field [1] [1] https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/reports/o...

Yes, that's tens of thousands of people.

Re: Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately

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Post by roumenguha »

jmclnx wrote: post #22

>Some employers have exploited the program to hold down wages, disadvantaging U.S. workers, Change "Some" to "All major employers". I worked at a fortune 500 company in IT and all they hired were H1B employees over the past 15/20 years. The last raise we got that was above inflation and health insurance increases was before 2000. I left 2 years ago and after I left they fired almost everyone in the IT Dept I was in a…

Name and shame?

Re: Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately

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Post by ben_w »

stronglikedan wrote: post #45
tom89999 wrote: post #24

Get your relatives and family out of this shithole and start a new life somewhere else. Why paying taxes for fat crooks? Why working your ass off for major companiel that dont pay taxes? I more and more understand people leaving their home country.

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It was the best, past tense, I'd say between around 1940 (give or take 15 years) at the start, and somewhere between 2001 and 2024 at the end, depending on your value system.
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