Employers have said these workers are critical and they can’t find any workers already in America to do these roles.

FAANG are by far the largest users of H1-B. They also have billions of dollars and access to excellent lawyers. They can pay up for this; an excellent employee is certainly worth more than $100k per year to them. Think of this more as a tax levied on some of America’s wealthiest businesses.

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chatmasta 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The data is publicly available. Microsoft is the largest US employer of H1-B with about 5,000 H1-B workers. So we’re only talking about $500m. They could probably find that stashed in the basement of one of their offices.

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Aurornis 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> FAANG are by far the largest users of H1-B.

The H1-B is used across many industries, not just tech.

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Workaccount2 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think it's mostly targeted at these IT firms that are 75% H1-B doing help desk for $50k/yr.

	▲	more_corn 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So create a policy that specifically solves that. This is madness.