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A comment on Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year. Parent comment

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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