Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by pascalxus on Saturday June 20, 2020 @07:12PM (#23588232)

A google job is like the top 1-3%. The vast majority of people don't make anywhere near that much.

second, it's not about hatred for immigrants. It's just about jobs and housing. And, there's simply not enough of those to go around.

I mean, sure we could have more immigrants. But, make no mistake, it will reduce the amount high end jobs available and reduce the housing supply even more.

And, actually, most blue states are very welcoming to new immigrants which is especially ironic since they're the ones that don't want to support the housing growth needed to house an increase in population.

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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by jpmoral on Sunday June 21, 2020 @12:28AM (#23589761)

This doesn't address GPs question about why, if local talent is plentiful, companies are willing to spend a lot of money and jump through several hoops to pay top dollar to immigrants when they could pay the same to a local and not have to spend extra money and effort.

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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by kevin_thibedeau on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:25PM (#23607630)

The locals are not captive workers and will do anti-business things like starting a family.

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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by winter_blue on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:59AM (#23612304)

This is an extremely rude, blatantly false, offensive, degrading, and insulting comment to make about the 1 million+ high-skilled workers in the US. Plenty of people own homes, start families, etc. But, I'm not too disturbed/bothered anymore -- as I've come to expect these sort of low-effort low-quality dishonest, hateful/insulting comments due to xenophobia.

Here are comments from just one user on HN (who was sadly banned), but who is/was on the H-1B, who owns a $1.15 home, has an American kid, has lived in the US for 17 years, and makes $650K a year:

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20473537

2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19993373

3) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19944062

4) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19525820

5) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19222618

The laws of U.S. that were written by Congress, make it practically impossible for India-born to ever become citizens or even permanent residents through the EB2 or EB routes. This is large topic, I've covered in some of my previous comments like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19857687 (short comment) or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19857878 (long comment).

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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by randompwd on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:46PM (#23607828)

Because, in essence, they get servitude from far more of those foreign hires than they do from the locals who can confidently exercise their rights.

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