Post #3332616
2026-06-08 19:25 UTC
I assume you think this was a good idea because it encouraged businesses to hire locally rather than hiring internationally. But really all it did was ensure that large companies (rather than immigration officials) were in charge of deciding who was and wasn’t allowed to work in the United States. Rather than improving overall employment, it just reinforced oligarchy.
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@testfactor@lemmy.world 2026-06-08 19:51
The H1-B visa system is a trash system. It is intended to cover cases where companies can’t find a domestic talent pool that meets their needs. In reality, it’s a way for companies to import cheap labor, then hold their visas over their heads to drive down wages. It should be prohibitively expensive to outsource work to foreign labor. Instead, it’s cheaper, which is why the system is being abused, and why tacking an effective tax on that labor was good.