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

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1233 points mriguy | 3 comments | 19 Sep 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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osnium123 ◴[20 Sep 25 01:05 UTC] No.45308760[source]▶
Won’t this mean that companies will move jobs to India, China or even Canada?
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LPisGood ◴[20 Sep 25 01:07 UTC] No.45308777[source]▶
Why did they not do that before, if it was feasible?
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Aeolun ◴[20 Sep 25 01:09 UTC] No.45308797[source]▶
It didn’t save them 100k/worker per year at the time. That is a lot of motivation.
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LPisGood ◴[20 Sep 25 01:11 UTC] No.45308813[source]▶
Hiring non-H1B visa workers would also save them 100k/worker.
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mattnewton ◴[20 Sep 25 01:14 UTC] No.45308847[source]▶
If you believe the reason the program was started, the US doesn’t have enough workers in those fields.
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ranger_danger ◴[20 Sep 25 01:16 UTC] No.45308867[source]▶
I don't believe it... I think companies just aren't hiring people (or maybe they aren't offering enough pay), not that qualified domestic candidates don't exist. But I could be wrong.
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1. tyre ◴[20 Sep 25 01:43 UTC] No.45309204[source]▶
Having interviewed hundreds of software engineers, I’m not convinced that the talent is out there but just hiding. Nor do I believe talent is fungible.

Pulling in smart people from all over the world is good for America.

I’m sure there are US citizens who would have been better candidates if we had a better education system or grew talent. Maybe this will encourage that, but it’s going to take a long time.

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2. majorchord ◴[20 Sep 25 01:53 UTC] No.45309333[source]▶
But if they're hiding, you wouldn't have interviewed them in the first place, right? I don't see how this is comparable.

All the smart engineers that I know absolutely struggle to find jobs. There are regularly job threads here on HN or freelance subreddits and other places, that are chocked full of great people desperate for work.

But maybe that's really just a small fraction of the people, I can't know for sure.

3. apwell23 ◴[20 Sep 25 12:03 UTC] No.45312591[source]▶
> if we had a better education system or grew talent

What about yale CS grads working at chipotle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44854263