Summary
Donald Trump voiced strong support for the H-1B visa program, calling it “great” and highlighting its use at his properties, despite his administration’s prior efforts to restrict it, which were blocked in court.
His comments come during a MAGA debate over the program, with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy supporting it as crucial for attracting global talent, while Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon argue that it harms American jobs.
Musk’s controversial online posts escalated tensions, sparking accusations of censorship against him by conservative critics.
Despite his racist reasons for doing so, killing H1B is a good thing. It is abused by contracting companies for cheap labor while higher skilled local talent is not hired.
But yeah, the memory of this guy’s supporters and how easy he is to manipulate is non existant.
I feels like, with most policy things, it’s just under-regulated and easily abused. The tossing out of misused and underdeveloped policy and programs instead of fixing it is getting so fucking tiring. Have an imagination, it’ll do us all some good.
It is actually just a terrible system. H1B visas are tied to employment and specific positions so the recipients of them are denied labor bargaining power. Skill based immigration that isn’t employer tied is much more fair to both the immigrant and citizens around them.
So it’s less that H1B is bad because loopholes and exploits and more that it’s just a deeply flawed idea from the get-go.
It was designed to be exploited. If companies cannot actually find local talent (in coding, for example: LOL, not buying that for one minute, having seen way too much of this nonsense over the decades) then, by all means, we should be making permanent immigration options here much easier, expedited, etc…and the individual should not be tied to the company in any way whatsoever.
Oddly enough, this is not the situation these poor companies lobby the government for, though.
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Could not agree more. We should be welcoming as much brainpower here as possible, but not under H-1B. It’s a disaster. Instead, encourage full citizenship, not indentured servants.