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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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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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1. comp_throw7 ◴[20 Sep 25 02:12 UTC] No.45309522[source]▶
The trivial way to fix that issue would've been to ORDER BY offered_salary DESC LIMIT $h1b_cap, not this.
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2. bhouston ◴[20 Sep 25 02:18 UTC] No.45309581[source]▶
not a bad idea.
3. petesergeant ◴[20 Sep 25 02:32 UTC] No.45309695[source]▶
That moves all H1Bs to software though, which I’m not sure is right.