When you buy services, is your bar good enough, or do you look for best value for money? And are those who try to optimise bigots merely for not buying from their local provider?

But anyway, the decrease in hiring in the US will be mostly driven by foreigners that will still be hired, but now not relocate to the US. Why hire someone on a H1-B at an extra cost of 100k when you can hire the same person in some other office and not pay that cost? It's a self-own by the US.

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elcritch 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s just another way of admitting that H1-B was always about lowering costs rather than lack of talent.

	▲	alephnerd 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's comments like this that make those of us who are of immigrant origins or the children of immigrants indifferent to losses even if we are impacted as well. Employers abusing the H1B process like WITCH is a known problem and everyone wants it resolved, but going back and implicitly implying that immigrants are subpar pisses people off. If a cabinet member trashes a semiconductor launch [0] that would have made 9k jobs in GOP-leaning upstate NY, the CEO of that company (who also invented the entire field of flash memory) may as well hedge and shift abroad [1] helping other countries move up the HBM value chain [2]. And even the Trump admin is giving a helping hand [3][4]. If you can't respect our community, why shouldn't we geopolitically hedge as well? [0] - https://www.syracuse.com/micron/2026/01/trump-cabinet-member... [1] - https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260123VL207/micron-commerc... [2] - https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZAICbxB0kT0 [3] - https://youtube.com/watch?v=uDtm-k6JvI8 [4] - https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/04/the-india-us-tru...