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ZeEa5KPul

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manqiangrexue said:
I don't understand the $100K HB1 thing. When ICE raided the Hyundai plant in Georgia and arrested over 300 skilled workers there to train Americans and jumpstart the plant, it was rumored that Trump understood the mistake it was and asked the workers to stay. However, they were treated so poorly and with so little dignity that they refused and went home, causing the progress to be severely delayed. I laughed and laughed and laughed about how the US shot itself in the foot with EVs and shipbuilding but I understood that was an isolated episode and a small setback.

So how could Trump be deliberately making this mistake on a national scale? It benefits all the countries that are US alternatives in the EU, Australia, Canada, etc... in that they will now take more skilled workers who want to emigrate and it also benefits the countries of origin for these skilled workers like China and India because worker retention will be strengthened with the US mosly removed as a possible route for braindrain. It benefits China more because China is a modern society and its cities are top in the world so worker retention is stronger than India, where people proclaim they'd rather die than be there. I don't understand what Trump wants to accomplish. I couldn't really laugh this time; I just stared with an open mouth. This is a literal example of when something is "so stupid it's not even funny."
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It's simple. There was a struggle in America between Global Leadership of the Rules-Based International Order™ and white supremacy, and white supremacy won. When your goal is to whiten America and your ideological framework is an existentialist one like the Great Replacement, you're perfectly happy to run over democracy, alliances, leadership, even economic competitiveness. Racialized nationalism trumps (no pun) everything else.

The social media ideologues who subscribe to this have a rebuttal to the economic arguments for immigration that sums it up perfectly: "This is my country, not your economic zone."
 
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manqiangrexue said:
I don't understand the $100K HB1 thing. When ICE raided the Hyundai plant in Georgia and arrested over 300 skilled workers there to train Americans and jumpstart the plant, it was rumored that Trump understood the mistake it was and asked the workers to stay. However, they were treated so poorly and with so little dignity that they refused and went home, causing the progress to be severely delayed. I laughed and laughed and laughed about how the US shot itself in the foot with EVs and shipbuilding but I understood that was an isolated episode and a small setback.

So how could Trump be deliberately making this mistake on a national scale? It benefits all the countries that are US alternatives in the EU, Australia, Canada, etc... in that they will now take more skilled workers who want to emigrate and it also benefits the countries of origin for these skilled workers like China and India because worker retention will be strengthened with the US mosly removed as a possible route for braindrain. It benefits China more because China is a modern society and its cities are top in the world so worker retention is stronger than India, where people proclaim they'd rather die than be there. I don't understand what Trump wants to accomplish. I couldn't really laugh this time; I just stared with an open mouth. This is a literal example of when something is "so stupid it's not even funny."
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IMO this regulation contains exemption clauses, meaning that companies with good government connections can apply for exemptions, while those that do not cooperate will have to bear higher operating costs.
So it is another way to hurt those companies who side with Dem.
Furthermore, control IT and internet giants means win the elections in the future.
 
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proelite said:
There is nothing skilled about the vast majority of H1bs in tech. They're just more readily available and can be kept on a leash for years.
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It's not about what percentage of skilled workers are within the set of all H1Bs, it's about what percentage does H1B make up in the set of skilled workers in the US. It doesn't really matter if the vast majority of H1B aren't skilled, it only matters how many skilled workers US can find without those H1B who are skilled.
 
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A fourth death has been confirmed by Optus in Western Australia following a network outage which prevented people from contacting emergency services.
At least 600 Optus customers in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory were affected.
In a statement, Optus said on Saturday night that a Western Australian person had died after attempting to call emergency services.
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iewgnem said:
It's not about what percentage of skilled workers are within the set of all H1Bs, it's about what percentage does H1B make up in the set of skilled workers in the US. It doesn't really matter if the vast majority of H1B aren't skilled, it only matters how many skilled workers US can find without those H1B who are skilled.
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If they are skilled, then 100k every 6 yrs would not be a big deal. This is mainly going to impact H1Bs working in corporate IT departments making less than 6 figures and IT staffing agencies that do visa sponsorship.

Very likely H1B workers will just end up having the fee deducted over time from their compensation, essentially a higher tax paid by H1b workers.
 
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the Trump administration to press Egypt to scale down a recent military build-up in the Sinai Peninsula, one U.S. official and two Israeli officials tell Axios.
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United Kingdom, Australia and Canada officially recognize a Palestinian state
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