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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/627596
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Uplifting news. Remember when Musk said he would go to war for H1Bs?
This will severely mess up academia. A large portion of faculty and post docs are on H1Bs. These are people who are literally the best at what they do and all of them are going to be kicked out.
Forced brain drain
Academia has already been shut down by NIH and NSF cuts. This is just more anti intellectual action targeting the research that used to drive the US economy.
Or maybe the US GDP will recover on Labubu dolls.
I think that’s a good thing, right? They’ve been using these to under pay people for ages.
They’ll pay the fee and underpay the H1-B visa holders even more to make up the difference.
They’re indentured servants. They can’t quit or they risk being deported by an increasingly violent ICE.
Makes it hard to use h1bs the way they were supposedly meant to be used; to make it easier to hire talent that can’t be found domestically. It think this will accelerate offshoring even more. I would have preferred the program was just reformed to make gaming the “prevailing wage” requirement harder, and to give h1b workers more freedom so they’re not as easily exploitable.
This is my belief. Companies will hire people in their existing foreign offices and that talent will never come into the US.
According to the article there’s no details on how the fee is to be applied, but it’s certainly not going to workers.
Quite the opposite, thyell recoup it from the workers.
It’s still a $100,000 deterrent, and maybe when news of the degrading working conditions reach the homeland there will be less applicants.
Probably fewer instead
It’s a $100k fee, not a $100k minimum salary. Meaning it will be that much more expensive to employ them
The part few people seem to be mentioning is that visa fees are a source of funding for ICE, if companies actually end up paying these fees at current visa rates it would be $6.5 Billion annual funding for ICE
Added fees to cover the cost of deporting you the minute you enter fascist land states.
