Sure everything Trump does is insane, but all I've been hearing is how "H-1Bs are good actually".

throwaway7783 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Where do you hear this? All I'm seeing is people praising this on X, people split here on HN, and people being downright racist towards Indians on Reddit h1b forums

	▲	sarchertech 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Mostly my own friend group and r/programming.

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yibg 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Having skilled immigrants is good for the country. H1B right now is the primary way this happens. Crippling H1B goes against that.

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sarchertech 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure that can be your stance. But that's not we're talking about. I'm talking about people on the left who have historically been anti H-1B, but who have moved over to the pro H-1B camp because Trump acted against the program.

To that point though, there were ~40k O visas issued last year. And presumably that number would have been much higher if the H-1Bs were harder to get.

And unlikely H-1B the O visas actually have requirements that the person does have above average skills.

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yibg 12 hours ago | parent [-]

I understand. I'm not doing a good job communicating my position. I'm in the camp you're describing: I've historically been complaining about the H1B program and how it's run, I'm also pro H1B now after this announcement like you say.

To elaborate, I'm not pro or anti H1B per se. I'm for bringing in skilled immigrates with a reasonable qualification criteria. I agree that H1B has been abused in the past and should be reformed. I'm ALSO against just outright killing the H1B program without a replacement, which is what this EO seems to be trying to do. It's not because it's trump did it, it's because the of the chaos and confusion of this rollout (which I think is likely intentional) and because if this holds it'll cripple the H1B program which in turn will cripple the inflow of skilled immigrants.

Basically I'm against the H1B program as it was, but I'm in favor of keeping it as it was over what is being done here.

	▲	sarchertech 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That’s fair. I think as usual Trump did things in the most disruptive, ridiculous way possible. I think there are enough Tech and finance jobs to pay the 8.5 billion that this will cost to bring in 85k workers.

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jdlshore 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Goomba fallacy.