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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by axau on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:21PM (#16407693)
The H1Bs I know that support Trump do so mostly because of economic reasons, and because of the immigration policies, like fixing H1B abuse, and making legal immigrants take priority over illegal ones (Democrats are perceived to do the opposite).
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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by dominotw on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:42PM (#16407856)
Can confirm this. Indians in SV are big trump supporters.
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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by MrBuddyCasino on Sunday February 18, 2018 @04:15PM (#16408716)
Mexicans too. But thats a global effect, immigrants usually vote anti-immigration - it seems paradoxical at first, but they have the the most to loose.
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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by filoleg on Sunday February 18, 2018 @06:17PM (#16409487)
How is fixing H1B abuse by a few companies (Infosys and such) considered an anti-immigration stance? As far as I know, the proposed solution was not to reduce the yearly cap on H1B visas (which indeed would reduce the number of immigrants), but to put higher base requirements, so the quality of an average candidate is better and that qualified candidates don't waste years and years trying to just get the visa while being stuck in a legal limbo. If anything, the current H1B system is more inhumane, because qualified people are playing the visa lottery in hopes that they will not get cut by someone like Infosys who mercilessly spams the visa system with all the resources they have.
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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by dominotw on Monday February 19, 2018 @11:42AM (#16413878)
> How is fixing H1B abuse by a few companies (Infosys and such) considered an anti-immigration stance?

Fixing this would result in higher quality competition coming in for existing H1B immigrants.

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by oriolid on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:46PM (#16407895)
India with all of its poverty, inequality and bigotism is more or less Trump's ideal country.
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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by thanatropism on Monday February 19, 2018 @10:52AM (#16413558)
Wow.

Given that the discussion was about the tendency of Indians to support Trump (at least in SV tech)...

... that's just over-the-top outrageous racist, man.

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by dominotw on Monday February 19, 2018 @11:36AM (#16413827)
1. strange and irrelavent rant. Curiously, wasn't downvoted, prbly due to 'anti trump comment' downvote shield.

2. poverty, inequality and bigotism actually increase throughout obama era( verifiable via internet search).

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