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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by DrewADesign on Saturday September 20, 2025 @11:50PM (#45319902)
> making US companies using foreign labor adhere to the same labor standards they must adhere to domestically.

There are already rules in place but no real enforcement. Large software companies save a fortune making workers compete with workers from countries that have dramatically lower cost of living, entirely circumventing the market constraints that favor workers.

In hiring the people the H1B was designed for, 100k is nothing.

> Most Pro-labor people would, I imagine, consider the global labor pool in their analysis.

This is a disingenuous argument. Allowing companies to pocket a huge amount of money that would have gone to the people they laid off to hire H1Bs with common skill sets is not pro labor by any measure.

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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by chipsrafferty on Sunday September 21, 2025 @12:24PM (#45324114)
> making US companies using foreign labor adhere to the same labor standards they must adhere to domestically.

This includes enforcement of the law.

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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by DrewADesign on Sunday September 21, 2025 @03:39PM (#45325980)
Yeah that would be great, but the legal and logistical barriers stopped that from happening for the past few decades won't likely change any time soon.
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