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

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1245 points mriguy | 3 comments | 19 Sep 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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reply00r123 ◴[19 Sep 25 22:37 UTC] No.45307582[source]▶
I ran into a guy making double six figures for like the last 7 years at a known public tech company. He was literally doing the most basic DevOps (Terraform). Nothing fancy. Zero ability to program. No willingness or desire to learn programming. He was an H1B. That blew me away. How is it possible that you have a guy in the US for 10 years who never bothered learning to code doing a 200K / year job. The abuse of H1B is crazy. He told me he had "tried to find a job" but "they all require programming." I am not even a tech background and I have learned to program. Completely insane imo. This was stuff you could teach a highschool student, no degree required.
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1. peripitea ◴[20 Sep 25 01:04 UTC] No.45308755[source]▶
How exactly is the system being abused by this guy being paid $200k?
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2. throwacct ◴[20 Sep 25 01:55 UTC] No.45309357[source]▶
I think the premise the OP is pointing at is that this could be a position for a US citizen.
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3. peripitea ◴[20 Sep 25 02:15 UTC] No.45309556[source]▶
That doesn't explain why it's abuse, though. How does the company benefit by paying this foreigner $200k + benefits + immigration fees/legal bills compared to hiring a US citizen? Abuse is e.g. bringing in cheap foreign labor at below US market rate. This is not that.