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    Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

    (www.reuters.com)
    1245 points mriguy | 15 comments | 19 Sep 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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    cogman10 ◴[19 Sep 25 20:25 UTC] No.45306123[source]▶
    IMO, the fee is the wrong thing that needs adjusting. It's the salary that should be adjusted. The minimum salary for an H1B should be $200k. It's something like 50k right now which is ridiculous especially with all the restrictions an applicant is under. It both suppresses wages and abuses the worker.
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    1. rs186 ◴[19 Sep 25 20:45 UTC] No.45306340[source]▶
    The nurse that helped save your life at ER might be on H1B getting paid $80k a year.
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    2. jpadkins ◴[19 Sep 25 20:51 UTC] No.45306418[source]▶
    the counterfactual is 'is there an equally qualified nurse who didn't get the position?' There is a lot of under-employment for highly qualified US citizens.
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    3. cogman10 ◴[19 Sep 25 20:56 UTC] No.45306468[source]▶
    That nurse may have just done their 6th 12h shift as well. Which they have to do or risk deportation.
    4. aaronnw2 ◴[19 Sep 25 21:03 UTC] No.45306558[source]▶
    Maybe more talented Americans would become nurses if the pay met the demand.
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    5. cyberax ◴[19 Sep 25 21:03 UTC] No.45306561[source]▶
    Because there aren't enough "equally qualified nurses".

    > There is a lot of under-employment for highly qualified US citizens.

    No, there isn't. Even with the current AI mess, the unemployment for highly-qualified software engineers is 2.8%: https://www.ciodive.com/news/june-jobs-report-comptia-data-I...

    The AI is now decimating the jobs for the recent CS graduates.

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    6. jpadkins ◴[19 Sep 25 21:06 UTC] No.45306599{3}[source]▶
    under-employment != unemployment. I carefully selected my words. And you switched from nurses to highly-qualified engineers.

    qualified nurses are having to get jobs at retail, etc to survive. For some sectors, it's importing cheap labor (aka wage suppression).

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    7. rs186 ◴[19 Sep 25 21:08 UTC] No.45306629[source]▶
    We know that's not going to happen.

    What now?

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    8. aianus ◴[19 Sep 25 21:20 UTC] No.45306760{3}[source]▶
    They pay $150k for a foreign nurse and attract the best foreign nurses instead of the cheapest.
    9. bamboozled ◴[19 Sep 25 21:45 UTC] No.45307049{4}[source]▶
    Hmmm, so a nurse can come from any country with any level of English and work in a US hospital without re-certification? There is a smell to this claim…
    10. seb1204 ◴[19 Sep 25 21:47 UTC] No.45307069[source]▶
    We know that the US is not the only country with shortage in healthcare workers. Most countries with an ageing population face this.
    11. seanmcdirmid ◴[19 Sep 25 21:54 UTC] No.45307155{3}[source]▶
    Eventually robots. Seriously, automation can eventually do a lot to make each nurse way more productive than they are.
    12. mancerayder ◴[19 Sep 25 22:54 UTC] No.45307730[source]▶
    Do we know what percentage of H1B's are NOT in the tech industry?
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    13. cyberax ◴[20 Sep 25 00:58 UTC] No.45308707{4}[source]▶
    The same applies to nurses. The nurse shortage has been basically non-stop since 80-s: https://nursejournal.org/articles/the-us-nursing-shortage-st...
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    14. sigwinch ◴[20 Sep 25 01:19 UTC] No.45308912[source]▶
    Nurses would be TN or in the past H-1C.
    15. czl ◴[20 Sep 25 14:37 UTC] No.45313784{5}[source]▶
    Long term shortages are evidence of supply controls or price controls. If nurse compensation was allowed to rise to its natural level the shortages would solve themselves. High compensation pulls people into a profession. Suppressing compensation with imported labor cures a short term problem but creates a bigger long term problem.