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

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1245 points mriguy | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.233s | source
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bhouston ◴[20 Sep 25 01:12 UTC] No.45308820[source]▶
This is actually smart. Many H1B visas are used to undermine fair labor wages for already local talent. We should ensure that H1B visas are for actual unique talent and not just to undercut local wages.

H1B is ripe with abuse - this article by Bloomberg says that half of all H1-B visas are used by Indian staffing firms that pay significantly lower than the US laborers they are replacing:

- https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-h1b-visa-middlemen-c...

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vasilipupkin ◴[20 Sep 25 01:41 UTC] No.45309181[source]▶
this is not smart. If you want to reform an H1B program, reform it. This is not a reform, this is a bizarre attempt to do what? stop companies from hiring foreigners? they will simply hire them in their foreign offices or offshore.
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fastball ◴[20 Sep 25 01:44 UTC] No.45309219[source]▶
What is reform and what is not reform? This is a change, not a cancellation. That sounds like reform to me.
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1. vasilipupkin ◴[20 Sep 25 01:54 UTC] No.45309348[source]▶
reform is a type of action that tries to identify a concrete set of issues and fix those issues, implies a positive change.

this is a change in the direction of significantly reducing hiring of foreign workers by American companies, which is bad for everyone. It's bad for American companies, because it will reduce their growth. It's bad for American workers because when our companies don't grow, neither does our economy and that hurts Americans. So it's a change, but it's a dumb change.