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

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1233 points mriguy | 4 comments | 19 Sep 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.582s | source
1. throwa5885667 ◴[19 Sep 25 22:00 UTC] No.45307221[source]▶
I wish the US would just return to "racial" quotas like pre-WW2 instead of all this huffing and heaving.

MAGA (and most Americans) don't seem to have any issue with immigration -what they have a issue with is the culture/skin-color/ethnicity of who immigrates. Indeed this is where the country quotas come from - Europe with 20 odd countries has 20x the priority than India or China.

If the US had an ounce of honestly they'd just make this explicit instead of beating around the bush. Since people have better opinion of the Chinese and other "white" East-Asians (admittedly the fairer gender only), just restrict it explicitly to "race" of Caucasians and there "Yellow" races.

It'll save Indians and other "suburbans" a lot of trouble not dealing with this farce of "liberalism" going forward. I genuinely mean this - given how things are going, Indians will find themselves in the place of Jews in Nazi Germany quite soon. And much like the useless British-colonial state that governed Israel then, the vestigial British state in India which is as internet upon Anglo-American triumph today, can't and will do jack shit for them.

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2. pessimizer ◴[19 Sep 25 23:21 UTC] No.45307969[source]▶
You're projecting.
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4. this2shallPass ◴[20 Sep 25 09:12 UTC] No.45311709[source]▶
How little do you know about the experience of Jews in Nazi Germany?

> And much like the useless British-colonial state that governed Israel then, the vestigial British state in India which is as internet upon Anglo-American triumph today, can't and will do jack shit for them.

Are you saying that Indian people wouldn't be allowed to immigrate to India?

Minutes of research say current Indian law allows people of Indian descent but not citizens to get Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) — a special immigration status for foreign nationals of Indian origin.

You're eligible if you are:

1. A former Indian citizen (who gave up Indian citizenship, e.g., to get U.S. or UK citizenship), or

2. A descendant (up to great-grandparent level) of an Indian citizen, or

3. The spouse of an Indian citizen or an OCI cardholder (subject to conditions)

With OCI, you can have:

1. Unlimited stay in India

2. Right to work, own property, and open bank accounts.

India could change it's laws, keep all the non-citizens out (or even citizens, what can't we imagine in this fantasy story). India could deny OCI to most every person that applies for its green card like status. But under current laws in your unlikely story, they seem like they'll do something.

I'd expect they'd fly as many Indian people as they could out of the US like many countries do in times of war. Not that this scenario will ever come to pass.