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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by braindead_in on Saturday June 20, 2020 @05:18PM (#23587385)
Calling the Indian Government a totalitarian regime is stretching it a bit too much. India is still a paradise of liberty compared to China and some other countries in our region. Indians want H1B because they want to earn in dollars, plain and simple. All other reasons are secondary. H1B is modern-day bonded labor. You guys are the sugar slaves of this age, like it or not.
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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by codelord on Saturday June 20, 2020 @07:06PM (#23588199)
As far as I know I'm not from India.
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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by triceratops on Saturday June 20, 2020 @07:25PM (#23588323)
> H1B is modern-day bonded labor.

That's a bit of a stretch, don't you think? Bonded laborers were forbidden to leave their jobs under penalty of the law (like actual prison time). H-1B holders are free to leave any time, they just experience a massive drop in income.

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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by lsllc on Saturday June 20, 2020 @09:02PM (#23588803)
It's not just a "massive drop in income"; if you get fired/laid off or want to leave your H1B job, you have 60 days to leave the country or find a new H1B job (which might not be so easy with quotas & applications etc).
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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by weyland108 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @05:49PM (#23587625)
Makes you a slave master nonetheless.
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