• Riskable@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      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.

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      2 months ago

      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.

      • stoly@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        This is my belief. Companies will hire people in their existing foreign offices and that talent will never come into the US.

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      2 months ago

      It’s a $100k fee, not a $100k minimum salary. Meaning it will be that much more expensive to employ them