Trump signed a new Executive Order yesterday that imposes a yearly fee of $100,000 per H1-b visa. This will apply to new and renewed visas. It also imposes a deadline on hurt H1-b holders to be within the USA on 9/21/2025 or be charged the fee on entry. The deadline on re-entry does feel very draconian and will screw over a few people that might have been on vacations back home. But the fee structure makes sense to me. H1-b visas have been abused by corporations to artificially suppress domestic labors wages for years. Why pay an American market rate when they can pay 1k and get an H1-b to fill a vacancy at the bottom of the pay band. It then puts downward pressure on the rest of the employees wages. It incentivizes employers to give shitty raises as any vacancies they can fill with imported labor. One company was approved for 5,189 H-1B workers in FY 2025, while laying off roughly 16,000 U.S. employees this year. Another compa...
Too quote the gov of Utah “I want to thank my fellow Utahns. You know, this bad stuff happens. And for 33 hours, I was praying that if this had to happen here that it wouldn’t be one of us — that somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country. Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for — just because I thought it would make it easier on us" Just another hate blinded bigot that wants to have an excuse to initiate a pogrom. The shooter turned out to be demographically uncooperative and they can not cope. "We can return violence with violence. We can return hate with hate. And that’s the problem with political violence, is it metastasizes, because we can always point the finger at the other side." cope and seethe fascist dickhead