I don’t care what political side you’re on, anyone who is weird about any immigrants including H-1B workers is not a good ally.
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I don’t care what political side you’re on, anyone who is weird about any immigrants including H-1B workers is not a good ally. You don’t get to only support the immigrants you like who might not ‘take your well paid job’.
@skinnylatte As an H1-B worker I proved the viability of a project that was at risk of being cancelled, leading to the immediate hiring of forty local engineers - and many more over the years.
The company was struggling to break even. The project gave them a five dollar per unit profit boost, for around a hundred million units per year.
I know I'm not unique in bringing specialized skills at critical times, I knew many at this company, all working closely with American engineers who have the system-wide knowledge essential to create finished products.
Governments can choose to view immigration as a tool for US productivity, or close it down in an act of performative isolationism. I guess the country gets what they vote for.
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I’ve seen so many BS excuses about H-1B fraud from leftists that’s just thinly veiled racism and xenophobia and nationalistic economic protectionism
Those people make frothing at the mouth republicans seem more friendly. At least they’re not pretending to be your friend
Frankly I’m tired of many leftists and liberals pretending their anti-H1B rants are praxis instead of just anti-immigrant / Indian sentiment
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Frankly I’m tired of many leftists and liberals pretending their anti-H1B rants are praxis instead of just anti-immigrant / Indian sentiment
@skinnylatte What's their problem with H1B visas?
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@skinnylatte What's their problem with H1B visas?
@DeanFarrell they think we should reduce international immigration because H1Bs empower billionaires to fuck over Americans.
Which is true, but their solution also involves fucking over immigrants.
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@DeanFarrell they think we should reduce international immigration because H1Bs empower billionaires to fuck over Americans.
Which is true, but their solution also involves fucking over immigrants.
@skinnylatte If workers from India are more qualified to do the job than Americans are, it's the result of the GOP's 50-year war on education.
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Frankly I’m tired of many leftists and liberals pretending their anti-H1B rants are praxis instead of just anti-immigrant / Indian sentiment
I sometimes think you don’t get to have strong opinions on US immigration unless you know the difference between an I-129 and I-140
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I sometimes think you don’t get to have strong opinions on US immigration unless you know the difference between an I-129 and I-140
@skinnylatte well, one of those goes east-west and one goes north-south, based on numbering conventions
(very /s)
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I sometimes think you don’t get to have strong opinions on US immigration unless you know the difference between an I-129 and I-140
@skinnylatte the ideas that muricans that never went through the process have is quite mind-boggling ...
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I sometimes think you don’t get to have strong opinions on US immigration unless you know the difference between an I-129 and I-140
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I sometimes think you don’t get to have strong opinions on US immigration unless you know the difference between an I-129 and I-140
@skinnylatte hopefully my strong “immigration is good, should be way easier, and we should do way more of it” absolves me.
It’s amazing how many clear correlations exist in America’s history that we just refuse to see, not least of which is how beneficial immigration is, especially when it’s a free for all
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I don’t care what political side you’re on, anyone who is weird about any immigrants including H-1B workers is not a good ally. You don’t get to only support the immigrants you like who might not ‘take your well paid job’.
@skinnylatte I'm tired of the "good migrant" / "bad migrant" discourse. I've heard it several times and once someone told me I was on the good side. I didn't responded the way they wanted
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Frankly I’m tired of many leftists and liberals pretending their anti-H1B rants are praxis instead of just anti-immigrant / Indian sentiment
@skinnylatte Say what you will about liberals but that doesn't sound like a left position. The left is concerned with employers abusing the H1B program to drive wages down and create precarity for their employees in general. Our system has created a terrible situation for workers on behalf of oligarchs through years of corruption where many people are very close to desperation. Sorry if this is offensive but if you didn't know I hope you can consider this perspective.
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I sometimes think you don’t get to have strong opinions on US immigration unless you know the difference between an I-129 and I-140
@skinnylatte This should honestly be the case in every country that has these policies. If a UK denizen starts spouting to the news about immigration, the first question should be "are you familiar with the difference between leave to remain and citizenship?"
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@skinnylatte Say what you will about liberals but that doesn't sound like a left position. The left is concerned with employers abusing the H1B program to drive wages down and create precarity for their employees in general. Our system has created a terrible situation for workers on behalf of oligarchs through years of corruption where many people are very close to desperation. Sorry if this is offensive but if you didn't know I hope you can consider this perspective.
@andrew773 She was on an H-1B1 visa for a few years, supporting her wife because the H-4 you get with an H-1B1 (which is the special Singapore H-1B) doesn't allow employment. And because Singapore doesn't recognize same sex marriages. So for you it's about employers, for her it's about getting to live in the same country as her wife.
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I sometimes think you don’t get to have strong opinions on US immigration unless you know the difference between an I-129 and I-140
@skinnylatte My strongest opinion is that processing times are way too long and they need to fix that, it's probably the most urgent thing short of like a global overhaul of the whole basis of the system. It's kind of wild that Canada has to know what an I-797 is and honor it.
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@skinnylatte My strongest opinion is that processing times are way too long and they need to fix that, it's probably the most urgent thing short of like a global overhaul of the whole basis of the system. It's kind of wild that Canada has to know what an I-797 is and honor it.
@skinnylatte Like, 3 years for I-751 is ridiculous enough already but apparently just a simple renewal (I-90) takes 10.5 months now according to USCIS? That's completely non-discretionary and should be completely automatic and just an update of the photo on your card.
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Frankly I’m tired of many leftists and liberals pretending their anti-H1B rants are praxis instead of just anti-immigrant / Indian sentiment
@skinnylatte a whole lot of folks on the left have never deconstructed their white savior complex and it shows.
Hint for those folks: if you feel like people with darker skin than you need "saving", you're racist.
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Frankly I’m tired of many leftists and liberals pretending their anti-H1B rants are praxis instead of just anti-immigrant / Indian sentiment
It doesn’t matter if you hate billionaires. If your fix for hating billionaires will harm immigrants, I don’t think you have good politics. You’re no different from maga
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It doesn’t matter if you hate billionaires. If your fix for hating billionaires will harm immigrants, I don’t think you have good politics. You’re no different from maga
@skinnylatte I don't think those who use that specific employment visa as way to rationalise their hate would even qualify for H-1B.
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I’ve seen so many BS excuses about H-1B fraud from leftists that’s just thinly veiled racism and xenophobia and nationalistic economic protectionism
Those people make frothing at the mouth republicans seem more friendly. At least they’re not pretending to be your friend
@skinnylatte
My issue with the H1-B is that it allows companies to have more control over the immigrant such that they are afraid to quit or ask for better benefits or working conditions over fear of replacement. It's bad for immigrants and bad for existing citizens. I would much rather see a system that allows for worker visas not to be tied to sponsorship. Generally, I'm pro mass immigration. Without it, I wouldn't have been born.
