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146 sats \ 7 replies \ @justin_shocknet 22 Sep \ parent \ on: Will the Trump $100k H1B Visa Change have Unintended Consequences? econ
Where is the admin pitching it as saying we don't want high-end talent?
Bannon and hard core NatSec people will of course tell you we can count on 10 fingers, over the span of a century, the people we actually need to bring in. But, if that were the admin's position it'd be $10 million, not a measly 100k.
$100k simply doesn't change the math much on the high-end, this is directly targeted at mturks hired en masse via Infosys and TATA.... much of that money laundering / tax evasion to boot.
I stand corrected. I misheard this clip of the admin talking about it. They were describing what the H1B is supposed to be for and not suggesting they want to discourage high skilled workers.
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So it is basically a fee hike which will discourage using the program for lower skilled workers but not high enough to discourage highly skilled workers.
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Yeah, I don't doubt it. There are so many abuses of government programs. The government absolutely sucks at administering things at best, at worst they have dark intentions.
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Yes and that's why any change, no matter how obviously positive, is getting unprecedented pushback because there's so much dark money at stake.
NGO funding to program the NPC's with disinformation to bleat against it is a drop in the bucket.
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FWIW I can attest to this as a former hiring manager in the US for an international mid-size company. What was (and I'd guess still is, looking at the stats) happening was that the large consultancy firms would get cheap labor from overseas under H1B because the commercial rate of a junior consultant (aka someone that doesn't know anything but has great education) in the US was/is 20x-50x that of someone in South Asia or Eastern Europe. So if you give them a 5x raise you'd make 4x more money from letting the person talk to the customer from the US instead of their home country.
We mostly needed to get experienced engineers (to make field service more robust, because it was hard to get people with proper experience in the US) over from Western/Central Europe, and we were often not getting H1B allocations - these would go to Accenture & co instead - when we needed them, so instead we'd get people to Canada where there was no upper limit for experienced engineers, and only managers (including me) were under L1 in the US. Then at least, if field support was in need in the US, at least they were relatively close, rather than having to subject them to 8-12 hour flight plans.
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