Trump Administration To Overhaul Lottery System For H-1B Visas (ft.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/25/0929209/trump-administration-to-overhaul-lottery-system-for-h-1b-visas
- Source link: https://www.ft.com/content/2e50f86f-2a40-4e5c-9470-7978b979c081
> The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin to implement a "weighted" selection process to give an advantage to higher-skilled and higher-paid applicants from February, according to a statement posted on its website. Matthew Tragesser, Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson, said: "The existing random selection process of H-1B registrations was exploited and abused by US employers who were primarily seeking to import foreign workers at lower wages than they would pay American workers."
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> The move is the latest in a broad crackdown on US immigration by President Donald Trump, who has dramatically stepped up deportations of immigrants and sent enforcement agents into cities across the country to carry out arrests. The change also follows moves earlier this year to curb the number of applicants for the H-1B visa, which is popular among technology and professional services companies, including charging an additional $100,000 fee.
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> Beryl Howell, a federal judge on the US District Court for the District of Columbia, late on Tuesday ruled the White House could move forward with the application charge after the US Chamber of Commerce had sued in October to block the six-figure fee.
[1] https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-changes-process-for-awarding-h-1b-work-visas-to-better-protect-american-workers
[2] https://www.ft.com/content/2e50f86f-2a40-4e5c-9470-7978b979c081
A start but not enough. (Score:2, Informative)
I have personally seen the H1B process first hand abused by employers which isn't fair to those wanting to come to the US to find a better life. However, this isn't enough. The US also needs to increase corporate taxes on those companies who are currently laying off US employees to merely restaff that exact same role in cheaper labor markets. I've seen many companies in the last few years layoff their US workers to merely repost the role in India for a fourth of the cost and then turn around and announce "r
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I've thought this too, but I wonder what loopholes would then be exploited for it not to matter. That, and the unintended consequences that inevitably occur with such well-intentioned but ultimately naive legislation
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We're seeing it. It's AI. The minute they can replace those people with a clanker; they'll just do that.
Trust me...I'm having to develop a system that's going to replace most of the humans where I work. Chances are once it's done...I'm gone too.
Keep in mind who backs this regime (Score:2)
Musk and related oligarchs have a large interest in the H1B program, and their interests run directly counter to the ones you're expressing.
One metric to see how much this will effect the flow of H1B workers is how much Musk, Andreessen and assoicated MAGAtech overlords whine about being betrayed.
If they're happy, you should not be.
Should never have been a lottery (Score:3, Funny)
Should have always been an auction.
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> Should have always been an auction.
And the auction (with bids starting at $100K) should have only earned the company's H1B hire an interview to prove his worthiness for the position.
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> immigration is good for the country
No, it is not in this context. H-1B is currently used to suppress tech worker wages by bringing foreigners willing to work for a lot less to get a chance at a green card. This benefits nobody except shareholders that get cheap labor. This is not how H-1B was intended to be used.
Given this site's general dislike of H-1B's (Score:1)
and general dislike of Trump, it will be interesting to see how the cognitive dissonance plays out in the comments.
"Man I dislike does something I want. Mental gymnastics time!" :)
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> it will be interesting to see
It will not be interesting. It will be tedious and repetitive. Allow me to illustrate:
> "While I really don't like Trump or MAGA, I think this is a good thing... yada yada herp derp
Check back and you'll see.
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TDS? I don't think need to bring into this the ability believe la Presidenta. The Maggots are too far into their Kool-Aid mugs to look around.
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TDS is putting a bandage on your ear, or wearing a diaper - outside of your clothing - in "solidarity" with your cult leader. Criticizing a political leader for legitimate concerns is not "derangement."
Re:Given this site's general dislike of H-1B's (Score:4, Insightful)
TDS is when you believe that man cares about you, or has something for you.
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TDS is a dog-whistle, like "woke" - something MAGA types throw out there because they can't rationally rebut an argument but want to feel like they've accomplished something.
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not something I want, it's something designed to halt immigration
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The H1B program has been touted as a way for companies to hire talent not otherwise available domestically. If focusing the program more-precisely on that goal somehow halts immigration, that should tell you everything you need to know about the H1B program.
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> not something I want,
This is because you are a hyper-partisan reflexively opposing anything Trump administration does. If instead you paused to consider the highly publicized negative effects (e.g., training your H-1B replacements, wage stagnation, etc.) that are being addressed by this change you'd agree this is a good change.
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This has nothing to do with overhauling the H1-B program. It is merely another method for la Presidenta to squeeze money out of foreigners and companies, just another institutionalizing of transactional policy on our slide toward Fascism.
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Because there’s always a loophole or exceptions when you pay him. The administration is completely transactional and they don’t even hide it. Buy a fancy dinner and you get a pardon. Buy a judge an RV or a vacation and they rubber stamp your agenda. Have a case heard by a federal judge you appointed? Same thing.
Re: Given this site's general dislike of H-1B's (Score:2)
I'm not convinced anything in this administration is actually Trump. We saw Trump for 4 years, and this is different. This is "various special interests using Trump to advance their pet projects." Maybe the crazier bits like "Gaza resort".....
The min fee should be indexed to x2 median income (Score:2)
Setting it to a fixed $100K will make it less effective deterrent overtime due to inflation.
Limited Time Offer (Score:3)
Whatever he sets up will be good for less than 3 years.
This is the kind of thing that the next president can easily overturn, and given Trump's known racism, (look at the the DOJ's succesful court cases against him in the 20th century) there is little chance it will stand the test of courts, let alone the test of time.
Mainly by his tech bro friends (Score:2)
irony.
Then 996 (Score:2)
So we have to pay them what the market will bear... Fine. They'll work from 9AM to 9PM six days a week for as long as they're our slave ^H^H^H^H"H employee. When we burn them out, we'll terminate them tell them they have 60 days to either find another job, or leave the United States and get another.
There's nothing in the Fair Labor Standards Act which limits working time for exempt employees.
Price (Score:4)
Tickets will cost $500,000 and if you buy 10 you get a bonus Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card