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
Billionaires suck etc but you are not listening to the immigrants who are saying that we are aware of the problems and this is still something we choose to do, don’t speak for us, ever
I keep saying, leftists’ concern-commenting about H-1Bs is going to give Stephen Miller bipartisan backing to do batshit horrible things with ‘legal immigration’
We don’t need your activism, or for you to save us, we need you to be aware of xenophobia no matter who is doing the xenophobia
It’s xenophobia because you’re still buying into the ‘H-1Bs are just ‘less than’ Americans narrative’.
Also if you genuinely believe the reason you don’t have a job is because employers would rather spend $25K on lawyers per person on a new H-1B employee who only has a 1 in 4 chance of getting a visa, just to fuck you over specifically, instead of fucking up everyone specifically and generally because they can, I don’t know what world you live in. I get that its an attractive idea to blame someone
@skinnylatte having come here via TN status, I have to say, the problems being complained about are mostly real (not job shortages though), but they are all caused by the system and not the immigrants. I could not bargain my salary properly for years because of it, which totally drove wages down. A work visa not tied to one employer would immediately solve that. Then there was the PERM process which did not require bona fide recruitment, but did require we accept resumes by fax.
@falcon yep. All of it sucks. Unfortunately that’s not what the new critics are complaining about. They’re complaining about us taking up high paid jobs, how dare we. The only conceivable reason must be because we have no agency.
@skinnylatte yup because jobs, of all things, are famously a finite resource. More people in a country definitely just come and compete for the same number of jobs that would exist if the country had half the population, yup. It's absurd, but nobody understands the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics anymore I guess.
@skinnylatte it's laughable to see the same people putting "us citizen" on their resume on purpose also claim that companies prefer to hire immigrants on temporary visas.