A continuous series of overreach and calibrate the amount of rollback needed based on response makes sense if you're keen to push things to the limit society will bear without rioting

>This is a choice they are making.

yup

Yes, the choice is to prioritise American software developers when a lot are out of work.

It seems eminently sensible to stop cheap labour from abroad in such a situation.

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The trouble is that also gives a period to understand how to circumvent the law or capture the regulation.

That would be surprising if developers were fungible. You can have a surplus of web developers (whom you lay off) while at the same time have a shortage of AI talent. Those web developers can't be hired in to the openings for AI talent.

Out those 15,000 employees how many were on VISA? They are acting like all 15k employees were US citizens and were replaced by h-1b employees.

Quite convenient to show the data such that it serves a narrative and hide the details.

So was intel in the following sentence.

“ Well, more tech talent for India and China it seems.”

Not if the US has any way to prevent that.

What, in crayon? Expect victim blaming, not apologies.

Yes, where "talent" = generic java developers writing CRUD apps for internal business functions.

Yes, it would be a new H-1B visa.

clarifying this point many hours into the 24 hour get home window does not make anything resembling sense.

Or you can proceed anyway and accept the damage as a bulwark against circumvention.

The policy makers act like spoiled children. Always demanding instant gratificatio with little to no forthought for the future or the consequences.

Its not effective leadership.

Skilled immigrants being important to the country and the H1B visa program being abused by large employers can both be true at the same time. From my own personal experience, most H1B visa holders are competent but not uniquely skilled.

This would be stupid five or ten years ago. Right now however, we have enough tech people in the country for the current job market.

On the other hand, immigrants are the ones you can exploit the most and use against your own citizens. They are throwing away a resource they still need.

But I guess with enough coercive force, it just might work with your own populus too.

No, destroying the US is what the rampant guest worker abuse is doing.

The American founders were almost all British settlers. You can’t compare settlers building a new society according to their own culture to immigrants coming to an existing society someone else built.

European settlers most of which from a tiny circle on the globe, and then we've had periods of immigration moratorium where our prosperity was dominated by domestic population. There's no law of the universe that says all immigrants are fungible.

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Were they immigrants or colonisers? It changes from week to week.

The tariff "reversal" taught me that public opinion is easy to manipulate. Tariffs are not and were never reversed, this is extremely easy to verify, and yet I routinely encounter people who are certain that they got reversed.