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Maybe you haven't seen the state of things in the US lately...

What magical skills do the "damn foreigners" have that none of those 30,000 laid off employees don't have? What was the intent of the H1B? To find skills that don't exist in this country. What is H1B actually used for? Labor arbitrage, nepotism, kickbacks. There's really no excuse for defending it anymore.

Or the bootlicker olympics for those who want everyone else to ignore the constant lies because they think bigger, more powerful government is utopian.

An unverifiable line item on a resume gives you real insight on an individual's experience and skills? I think your system is flawed.

Well you are right about one thing. Government is intent on breaking the country. But rampant immigration immigration fraud and abuse has been around for decades.

Go ahead then. Explain how the US government measures the skills of work visa applicants. Because they just exposed millions are buying fake diplomas in India and getting visas. On the contrary, you sound like an H1B worker defending your position to parasitically drain US resources.

I think anyone working with the global talent can tell you there are absolutely no controls around measuring their quality. The skilled talent simply isn't skilled at all. They are willing to engage in kickback schemes. Even the O1 "genius" visa is being given to onlyfans models. Immigration is completely broken and it's by design.

Yeah, it should also be combined with the elimination of OPT, H4 EAD, and H1 visas that are harming the STEM industries in the same way to the tune of 6 million jobs. New grads can't compete with the tax benefits provided by hiring OPT workers.

Rampant abuse, fraud, nepotistic hiring combined with record high tech unemployment to start.

These companies include the most valuable companies making record profits. They aren't struggling to survive. They are bowing to institutional investor demands to eek out another penny because the alternative is they get replaced by the board.

Name a single major accomplishment of the USIP. That's the grift.

Exactly.

So what is the tiktok ban really about? If it's about the lack of narrative control, we should see the same ban being applied to RedNote.

As a Chinese, you know what you can't talk about. As an American we are "surprised" when our "free speech" results in overt government-sponsored censorship.

You are very wrong.

I'm willing to bet Americans are the most propagandized people on Earth. And it's done by our government with the "public/private partnership" aka "unconstitutional workarounds" of all legacy media and social media outlets. Facebook has admitted as much, and the Twitter files proves it.

China controlling the flow of information is the same. The only difference is China is upfront about what information they are feeding everyone.

Then call me Mr Outlier.

Because large tech companies with a large cohort of H1B + tendency to frequently reorg + career level with impact with large reach means I have indeed worked with hundreds.

Sorry bro, you don't get to deny my actual experience.

Given that Meta pays so well, why are they so dependent on H1B?

Or google? In 2023 they had a net elimination of 6576 US jobs, but added 5479 H1B.

This isn't a simple market issue, these companies are abusing worker visas to replace Americans from their own companies.

The H1B fraud from places like Infosys is alive, well, and bigger than ever.

Alive and well. https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/h1b_visa_fraud/

Companies caught cheating the lottery https://archive.ph/Ey3e8

Outsourcers rampant abuse https://www.infoworld.com/article/2241196/proof-that-h-1b-vi...

SV companies discriminating against Americans https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/10/07/h-1b-visa-company-sup...

You've clearly never worked in a large tech company.

You are forgetting the dimension called "time" Mr. Angry But Dense.

H1B doesn't test for skill. It is a lottery. And judging from the skill of hundreds of H1Bs I've worked with, it is a failure of a system.

You didn't name your employer for someone who might be interested. Perhaps visibility is one reason you can't find anyone?

I applied to a similar position locally this year. I far exceed their requirements and experience and I got rejected at the application stage. And the same goes for nearly all of other places I applied to. Hiring has most definitely changed over the years. They are not just looking for "qualified applicants". There is something else going on.

His point was to keep the chemicals out of our food supply. Argue about the details all you want, but nobody wants to consume this toxin and feed it to their children. So yet again, Alex Jones was right.

This is an excellent point and a real litmus test. If there really were a labor shortage companies would be providing training programs to build that labor force.

Instead they post job descriptions so niche only a liar could technically qualify.

The same FAANG companies found guilty of depressing wages through collusion? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

Your question is why is it wrong to depress wages? Yeah, really tough question.

Now consider OPT visa workers which are being paid even less, plus companies get an extra 8-10% discount because they don't have to pay Social Security and Medicare. There is no shortage of skilled workers here. Only corporate greed.

Look up that "prevailing wage". It's a deep discount compared to the real world.

Minimum for a Software Developer in SF: $113,444 https://h1bgrader.com/

Even if that is true, there's no reason to bathe in it, cook with it, water our lawns with it.

And now it's becoming clear that IQ is affected by fluroride https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3409983/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5285601/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/epa-must-address-fluoridate...

So how about we keep it out of our drinking water. If you want to put fluoride on your teeth, use fluoridated toothpaste.

I know personally companies that laid off a major percentage (50% in one case) of their software engineers to replace them with cheaper foreign and visa workers. I don't know if you've tried to find a job recently, but it's as bad as it's ever been regardless of level of experience.

Don't think US citizens are sitting in luxury. Your company will fire you and replace you with cheaper replacements in an instant.

"lowering" doesn't mean having the lowest rate in a race to the bottom. Putting it back to 35% would put us as top 5 in the world. And for what? We have the data. This is a settled point. Tax revenue goes down and entire industries die and move away. Because yes, corporations will maximize their profits by any means.

Folks seriously believe having one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world will have a positive effect are dreaming. Don't strawman with Ireland.

The actual counter-point is that history shows us the exact opposite of what you propose will happen. "Higher tax = more money for our efficient government" is incredibly simplistic and ignorant thinking.

The fact is that lower tax rates actually result in higher tax revenue. https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/benefits-of-a...

You're forgetting the entire political left, who claim only whites are intelligent enough to get IDs.