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Re:H-1B Visas: U.S. Lawmaker Re-Introduces Bill to Tighten R... by SomeStupidPoint on Monday January 09, 2017 @07:43PM (#13361494)
Manufacturing didn't really leave the US, the jobs are just done by robots.
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Re:H-1B Visas: U.S. Lawmaker Re-Introduces Bill to Tighten R... by j_koreth on Monday January 09, 2017 @09:24PM (#13362015)
H1-B workers are generally mostly used as programmers and brought in by large tech companies to use instead of native labor. I'm not really sure what manufacturing has got to do with this unless programming was made obsolete by robots already.
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