With the rapidly developing national sectors in India and China and the increasing racism and deteriorating condition this could very well the point at which many people consider to actually go home. What could have been decades of comfortable technological lead for the US may evaporate within a decade or two if human talent is rejected like this. Crazy to see a nation do this to itself honestly.
https://theprovince.com/technology/shopify-poach-foreign-tal...
In other countries, the legislature votes on immigration policies and those policies are implemented. Canada decides to have high-skill immigration through a point-based process and the executive implemented those policies. That’s not what we do in the US. We formulate immigration policy through executive fiat and bureaucratic practice. In the US, the H1 program is not a high-skill immigration program. We don’t have one. The Wikipedia article covers this well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa
> An H-1B visa allows an individual to enter the United States to temporarily work at an employer in a specialty occupation.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b
> The H-1B program applies to employers seeking to hire nonimmigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit and ability
The Immigration and Naturalization Act that created the H1-B program was billed to voters as creating a temporary immigration status, not a vector for permanent immigration. It has turned into a de-facto permanent immigration visa not by law, but by executive practice.
My family (my parents and I, then later my uncle and aunt and their two adult kids) came here on an H1B visa. I’m a proponent of skilled immigration. But viewing this as just a debate over immigration policy (or worse, just an artifact of Trump racism) is deeply misleading. We’re a country founded on the rule of law. But for decades, we’ve ignored our ordinary legislative processes when it comes to immigration policies. That’s not right, that’s not how Democracy is supposed to work, and it’s hard for me to blame people who are simply demanding that our existing laws be enforced. At the same time, yes, it’s unfair to people who came here on H1-B thinking it was a route to permanent residency. Maybe if proponents of skilled immigration had actually done the work and actually gotten legislation passed creating a permanent immigration program for skilled workers, we wouldn’t in this mess today.
I've worked and lived along side immigrants my entire life. From what little I know, it's just nutty. (My childhood church helped refugees get resettled and established. Working in tech, a huge fraction of my coworkers were born elsewhere.)
While I'm very pro immigration, maybe even open borders, I understand it'd have to be thought out. But I have no idea what a better system would look like, what to fight for.
He’s good at causing chaos. :(
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It's not like there are American workers lined up to do the job h1b workers do. America will lose the demand for skilled labor permanently with this along with a largr chunk of what little supporting skilled workforce exists.
I will be honest with you, I like living in america with all it's problems.
Do you guys suggest a better country for relocation? Canada is all I can think of but it's so cold!
I fully support giving h1b holders a green card once trump is gone.
This would make US citizens who are developers and SREs and system admins almost impossibly valuable, wouldn't it?
Higher the wage in US, greater the incentive for a firm to do these things.
A lot of that talent originally came to the US for an education, and those numbers leveled off when Trump was elected. Most of the foreign student growth was also from China, which I'd expect to see drip in the next decade regardless of who wins in November.
https://www.educationnext.org/files/ednext_XIX_4_usher_fig01...
Because of the education angle, I doubt Ireland will be a winner, but the UK might be, Canada, and Australia look promising.
