more like that Israel news site is saying "HEY I.C.E.!! OVER HERE!! IF YOU'RE GONNA START DEPORTING PALESTINIAN STUDENTS, HOW ABOUT STARTING WITH THIS GUY OVER HERE!!!!!!"
Yeah...expect more high faluttin techno jargon in press releases as proxies for good ol social media/msm snitching/muck raking.
I'm not seeing ANYTHING about this in any reputable news source. You might want to slow your roll on this, cowboy . . .
Dipshit moron’s demented daddy using the FBI to go after these prolifers. When you denied grandma her Mass service and treated them worse than a murderous thug, you are lowered than Hitler. If I see that homeless no good dipshit moron astro123 in the local library using their free WiFi, I will tell the librarian to kick the bum out.
"reputable news source" -- you mean the Lamestream Media? Haven't you been paying attention to @tinman? They don't matter anymore. It's all about the Xeets and the Bro-casts.
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I believe the fees are set by Congress, so this likely won’t survive lawsuits. Beyond that, H-1B is not just for tech. I’m not sure if this was a surgical change or a hammer, but either way, I’m confident there’s a well-thought-out plan to ensure serious gaps are filled. A shortage of doctors is one obvious example. Today, we face a shortage of around 64k physicians, and the AAMC projects that this will grow as doctors retire and the baby-boomer population demands more services.
Assuming it survives lawsuits and is applied as a hammer, it could be a loss for the US. Losing out on rare talent, especially in an age where everyone is competing for a small pool of AI experts could backfire. And IIRC, some of the most successful tech companies in the world were either founded or are currently run by foreigners who came here through the H-1B program: Microsoft, Google, Tesla, to name a few. I think the H-1B program needs stronger enforcement. Today, companies must attest to the Department of Labor that hiring an H-1B worker did not displace a US worker, but enforcement is lax - GAO reports note that violations sometimes go unpunished. And... we need better education for Americans. We can’t compete with a less-educated workforce. Putting up a wall is just a temporary bandage; it doesn’t solve the root cause.
I don't hate the H1B visa fee as a concept, but I am afraid that it's just going to be another weapon for the administration to pick winners and losers. The proclamation explicitly says that the secretary of the DHS has the discretion to not apply this fee to a specific person, a specific company, or entire industry. So I expect every tech company, research university and institutions, and financial institutions to bow down and kiss the ring more than they already have to get an exemption.
What I expect to happen is what happened to industry in the 1990s. Most companies will not pay that much for an H1B, and for IT specifically they will accelerate their offshoring to India to the point that the American IT landscape will be dominated by Indian firms in 20 years just as China dominates in many fields today. But on principle, I am strongly on board. H1Bs have been used to hurt American workers at the benefit of the executive class.
