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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

183 points proberts | 3 comments | 17 Oct 24 16:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source

I'll be here for the few hours and then again at around 1 pm PST for another few hours. As usual, there are countless possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers. Thanks!

Previous threads we've done: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts.

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bjornnn[dead post] ◴[17 Oct 24 21:28 UTC] No.41874000[source]▶
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1. jzebedee ◴[17 Oct 24 21:37 UTC] No.41874086[source]▶
I love responses like this because they highlight how allowing broken systems to persist can so thoroughly warp their purpose. Did anyone go to law school and specialize in immigration because they felt called to be "the modern equivalent of the overseer on the plantation?" Probably not.

But if you want to sample the kind of vitriol that somebody living with the precarity of a H-1B "employer controls your life" environment, here's a paragraph of it to chew on.

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2. bjornnn ◴[17 Oct 24 21:53 UTC] No.41874194[source]▶
Ah yes, those poor immigration attorneys just trying to get through life one day at a time on their six figure income, having to endure the unimaginable agony of reading the occasional snarky internet comment. Let me play you a song on the world's smallest violin while thousands of migrant workers get deported every time Elon Musk has to pay child support.
3. A4ET8a8uTh0 ◴[17 Oct 24 21:53 UTC] No.41874196[source]▶
My personal favorite is the immediate follow up this conversation generates ( 'well, if you don't like the job, change it' ) while cynically omitting how we got here and that changing it is either near impossible or being actively hindered. You see it all the time. One would think the population would get better at pattern recognition after being stung once or twice.