Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba...
by throwmehaweh on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:12PM
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which part is bad policy? that part where the US is in the midst of it's worst economic recession in modern history, with record unemployment across the board, and so they want to pause foreign worker programs to allow a larger pool for US workers?
Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba...
by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:23PM
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It's bad policy because it was done super abruptly, throwing an unnecessarily large number of lives into chaos, and packaged with a plan to make large unspecified changes when foreign workers are allowed again. Anyone who was planning to come to the US over the next couple years is now basically forced to cancel, because who knows what the immigration system will look like then?
Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba...
by rantwasp on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:36PM
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anything to make the “base” happy I guess. This ripples from this will plague the American economy for years. Maybe H1B was in need of some sort of reform, but the implementation of this is simply moronic.
Mostly, hard-right Republicans have been advocating for it, but I suspect a lot of labor (who has been raging against H-1B for a while) is happy with the policy of suspending H-1B visas, though quite dissatisfied with the politics, which is why you want hear any public support from them on it. (I favor abolition of H-1B as part of wider immigration reforms, but think that both the immigration suspension in general and the addition of various economic non-immigrant visas, including H-1B, to it in particular are bad policy, in the interest of disclosure.)