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I don’t care about your politics, but if your take on ‘legal immigrants’ is ‘I am an experienced American software engineer and H1Bs are taking the jobs I should be having because they are low paid slaves’, you have bad politics

Cassandrich

@skinnylatte I'm not going to blame the immigrants or oppose H1Bs over this special case, but one concrete harm of the system is that it allows filling tech jobs that wouldn't exist (and shouldn't exist) without holding employees' residence status hostage. Twitter would have ceased to exist 2 years ago if Elon hadn't held leverage over H1B employees.

@dalias in a better job market this is less of an issue as employees can simply get a new job and transfer their status. The problem is the bad job market. Not an ideal system, but it is the same in every country. Every country’s work visa for foreigners is exactly the same. Lose your job, get lost. Unless the US wants to innovate on this area, and we should.