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Re:US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card... by shimman on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:07PM (#50008558)
What do you think happens when you lose your ability to provide for shelter or healthcare for yourself? Go talk to people that are now homeless because they lost their jobs.

Lay offs are a potential death sentence, there is a very real reason why suicides increases track nearly 1-to-1 with unemployment rates.

That's the dice roll you have in this country as a worker.

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Re:US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card... by pc86 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:28PM (#50008880)
I'm not tracking how you think getting of this particular visa program "weakens labor" when what it will actually do is strengthen labor by decreasing labor supply and increasing individual bargaining power of workers.
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