This has to be looked at from the point of view that almost every university offering a computer science degree has watched the Jobs disappear for their graduates due to AI. Meanwhile for the jobs that remain, you can hire an H1 visa person and get 10 years of experience and a lower wage with the benefit that they cannot leave your company or they lose their visa. An alternative would be to ban H1 B visas for computer science jobs.
I know it's not the case people are mostly thinking about, but the EO would also be super disruptive to academia. We hire plenty of foreign professors, postdocs, etc., and my understanding is that they rely on H1Bs. If this goes through, it's another way the US will be shooting itself in the foot with respect to our long run scientific and technological development.
If you want to lose the AI race to China, this has got to be one of the best policies you could pursue.
This has to be looked at from the point of view that almost every university offering a computer science degree has watched the Jobs disappear for their graduates due to AI. Meanwhile for the jobs that remain, you can hire an H1 visa person and get 10 years of experience and a lower wage with the benefit that they cannot leave your company or they lose their visa. An alternative would be to ban H1 B visas for computer science jobs.
I know it's not the case people are mostly thinking about, but the EO would also be super disruptive to academia. We hire plenty of foreign professors, postdocs, etc., and my understanding is that they rely on H1Bs. If this goes through, it's another way the US will be shooting itself in the foot with respect to our long run scientific and technological development.
If you want to lose the AI race to China, this has got to be one of the best policies you could pursue.
professors are eligible for J-1 visas, which last longer than H-1Bs
I hope the trump regime chokes
While he should do it legally, the H1B1 visa is genuinely modern indentured servitude that should be outlawed
It was always about importing cheap scab slave labor. Now that you have to pay it will turn out that they aren’t actually all that skilled.
Good. That's $8.5B a year. If people buy the gold/platinum/etc visas that's even more.
It will be like the tariffs. People will just pay up and we'll get a bunch of money.
US visa's are a valuable resource. They were giving them away at under market price.
I agree that Trump should not be stopping H1B visa program by raising the cost.
Hey Donnie John, congratulations on your ethinic cleansing agenda and the progress you are making on let’s make America stiupid again.
That will be USA’s loss, as skilled workers are in demand in all developed / developing countries.
I think the second to last paragraph has a typo, the H1-B Twitter debate was in December 2024?