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BenFranklin100 11 hours ago

To note, the lead investigator on this is Rama Venkatasubramanian, an Indian:

https://www.jhuapl.edu/about/people/rama-venkatasubramanian

This is the same sort of person that MAGA and tech workers want to discourage coming to the United States.

danans 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> This is the same sort of person that MAGA and tech workers want to discourage coming to the United States.

Tangential, but let's not forget that there are also Indian MAGAs like the current FBI director.

There are also influential and wealthy Indians who are more than willing to partner with MAGA to pay whatever tribute is necessary to curry favor, and throw working Indian immigrants under the bus to line their own pockets and accomplish their own personal and political objectives.

In the end, it has little to do with being Indian and more to do with scapegoating and dividing tech workers among themselves, to distract them from the squeeze that big corporations are putting on them.

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mensetmanusman 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You might be confusing the specific with the substantive.

BenFranklin100 8 hours ago | parent [-]

You might be confident the intended with the substantive. The intended effect is to raise American salaries. The substantive that is the MAGA’s H1-B and larger immigration policies will discourage STEM researchers to come the US. This will hurt US scientific research and is likely the most substantive long term effect on the nation. Any potential effects on tech workers salaries pales in comparison. This potential also includes lower developers salaries as American companies lose their competitive edge.