This is just cruel and inhumane and solves no issue that I can think of.
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Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately
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#72GOP seems to prefer choosing to defect in the prisoner's dilemma.
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Microsoft can also just pay the fee right? My understanding is that it’s on the employer to pay, not the individual. Given that these are incredibly skilled folks this would certainly be annoying if you’re Microsoft (like any other tax or fee) but given the value they get from each employee it seems like $100,000 isn’t much.
Incredibly skilled? More like incredibly low paid. H1Bs are mostly used now to save money not to fill high skilled jobs. I know US citizens who have 10+ years of experience as software engineers and have been out of work for a year now. The $100k will try to take that advantage away from employers.
People keep saying this but all my peers in tech companies on h1b were paid the same as me.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft can also just pay the fee right? My understanding is that it’s on the employer to pay, not the individual. Given that these are incredibly skilled folks this would certainly be annoying if you’re Microsoft (like any other tax or fee) but given the value they get from each employee it seems like $100,000 isn’t much.
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...
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#76This is not what functioning bureaucracy in a functioning democracy looks like.
Yea, this is reagan's party with the mask off
Trump is a populist. He is doing tons of populist things.
This is another Bernie Sanders policy. Bernie is also a populist.
The differences between them are mostly "two-sides of the same coin"
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/h1-b-visas-hurt-one-ty...
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#77This is just cruel and inhumane and solves no issue that I can think of.
The cruelty is the point. It's consistent with the rest of their policy decisions.
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#78Get 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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If when you say America you're talking about United States of America that's quite debatable not only right now but since some years ago.
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#79This is not what functioning bureaucracy in a functioning democracy looks like.
H1Bs are slave labor and the program is used primarily by sweat shop consultancies who pay them less than Americans. This will be incredible for Americans looking for work. They don't have to compete with artificially cheap workers.
The order allows for exemptions at the executive’s discretion. Aka, the biggest companies will bend the knee and get their way
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yea, this is reagan's party with the mask off
Trump is a populist. He is doing tons of populist things. This is another Bernie Sanders policy. Bernie is also a populist. The differences between them are mostly "two-sides of the same coin" https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/h1-b-visas-hurt-one-ty...
"Return in 15hr or pay $100k"
I didn't see that on Bernie's website.