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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by fastball on Friday September 19, 2025 @09:44PM (#45309219)
What is reform and what is not reform? This is a change, not a cancellation. That sounds like reform to me.
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by throwaway89201 on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:14PM (#45309545)
In other democratic countries, reform is mostly proposed in parliament. Experts and other government institutions are publicly consulted. Reform is seldomly passed under emergency grounds, and H1B rules are an unlikely area for emergency executive action that has a transition period of not more than 2 days.
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by AngryData on Friday September 19, 2025 @11:57PM (#45310212)
Of course in other democratic countries their parliaments haven't purposefully and willingly seceded their powers to the executive branch and spent the last 50 years completely ignoring the entirety of the people's will, needs, and desires as they gathered and concentrated as much additional power as possible.
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by vasilipupkin on Friday September 19, 2025 @09:54PM (#45309348)
reform is a type of action that tries to identify a concrete set of issues and fix those issues, implies a positive change.

this is a change in the direction of significantly reducing hiring of foreign workers by American companies, which is bad for everyone. It's bad for American companies, because it will reduce their growth. It's bad for American workers because when our companies don't grow, neither does our economy and that hurts Americans. So it's a change, but it's a dumb change.

Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by fastball on Saturday September 20, 2025 @11:59AM (#45314444)
Could you give an example of the type of reform would be a positive change?
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by cmurf on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:19PM (#45309589)
Reform is done legally. The statute this falls under requires the fee be based on the administrative cost to process the application.

Changing the statute requires Congress to act.

Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by fastball on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:38PM (#45309733)
So if congress passed a law to impose a $100k fee it is reform? That is the only aspect that is concerning?
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by cmurf on Saturday September 20, 2025 @09:01AM (#45313022)
Yes. No.
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by fastball on Saturday September 20, 2025 @11:58AM (#45314436)
I don't think that is true from the perspective of the initial comment I was replying to. Clearly the crux of their concern was not "this ain't an act of congress".