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

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1233 points mriguy | 1 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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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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throwaway89201 ◴[20 Sep 25 02:14 UTC] No.45309545[source]▶
In other democratic countries, reform is mostly proposed in parliament. Experts and other government institutions are publicly consulted. Reform is seldomly passed under emergency grounds, and H1B rules are an unlikely area for emergency executive action that has a transition period of not more than 2 days.
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1. AngryData ◴[20 Sep 25 03:57 UTC] No.45310212{3}[source]▶
Of course in other democratic countries their parliaments haven't purposefully and willingly seceded their powers to the executive branch and spent the last 50 years completely ignoring the entirety of the people's will, needs, and desires as they gathered and concentrated as much additional power as possible.