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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by guitarbill on Thursday October 31, 2019 @06:43PM (#21414541)
visas on the other hand are incredibly easy to revoke, or simply not renew. and you're employer has to support a greencard petition if you're e.g. on an h-1b. i know of at least one person's GC application that got torpedoed after his relationship with his manager soured. especially if they have families, employees on a visa simply aren't going to speak out.
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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by malvosenior on Thursday October 31, 2019 @06:47PM (#21414563)
> employees on a visa simply aren't going to speak out.

I know many people with visas that are against illegal immigration. Don't assume that everyone who's not from the US hates ICE and supports unfettered immigration.

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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by ApolloFortyNine on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:42PM (#21414955)
As do I. It makes sense really, the queue for a green card for someone from India is 12 years now, while there are people 'cutting in line'.
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