> it just sounds like the goal is to keep Indians out

Bingo.

This is a pre-midterm messaging move aimed at shoring up support with young men who voted for Trump in ‘24. The chances that the policy even lasts more than a few months is slim.

Oh please, US citizens have been getting a raw deal for decades, I lived and worked in the Bay for years and years, my Indian colleagues were no more talented than the US citizens coming out of US schools. You clearly weren't part of that world if you can make claim to the contrary.

> US citizens have been getting a raw deal for decades

Agree. Isn’t it odd that the H1B and offshoring aren’t being touched? Just green cards? The kind that gives employees leverage with employers?

This is a messaging move. We need immigration reform and a pro-labor movement in America. This is crumbs to peasants.

> This is a messaging move. We need immigration reform and a pro-labor movement in America. This is crumbs to peasants.

Couldn't agree more. I can see the admin flailing in trying this, the fact they didn't go farther just means there's an opportunity for the midterms.

When I was working at a large tech company, most of our teams were foreign-born. And we were specifically scouting for the US citizens for ITAR projects.

And this only got _worse_ as more and more advanced STEM degrees in the US go to foreigners.

> This is a pre-midterm messaging move aimed at shoring up support with young men who voted for Trump in ‘24. The chances that the policy even lasts more than a few months is slim.

That was my thought as well, especially with this weird "brown people at the Texas football game, are they or aren't they American" thing that Republicans are suddenly grinding their axe on.

Yes, it is racism and xenophobia. That’s what the current government is pushing for

If there were a billion Englishmen trying to immigrate here and drive down wages, we'd be against that too.

You're implying that the guy married to an Indian, who named his son Vivek, is somehow racist against Indians?

You're telling me that men with wives can't be misogynists?

I fail to understand how it is racism to support offshore hiring. Does that not help the local economies of remote workers? I am not sure what the admin is thinking and why they are making such decisions but for people who want to stay where they are it is king great.

Also why are you singling out Indians? Are you racist against other nations?

Is this bait?

I hate the Trump administration and I don't know that I agree with this latest thing, but at least if they're outsourced to India then at least the company has a bit less leverage over you. I think in the current system employers can hold your H1B visa over you like a Sword of Damocles.

I've never had to worry about visas, so this is just stuff I'm getting from visa-holding friends, but that always seemed a bit scary.