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

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1311 points mriguy | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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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vasilipupkin ◴[20 Sep 25 01:46 UTC] No.45309254[source]▶
you don't believe it why ? you look at American education system and you think it produces multitudes of talented engineers? is it so inconceivable that we need a lot of smart people and we don't produce enough of them locally ?
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Froztnova ◴[20 Sep 25 02:04 UTC] No.45309448[source]▶
So let's have a thought experiment. We can agree, even if the US primary education system is crap, that the university system is world class. After all, people wouldn't come from other countries to study abroad in the US if it were not competitive.

So our CS graduates take the same courses, study the same material, and pass on the same grading scales as these international students from countries like China, India, etc that have come to attend American universities. Therefore it seems unlikely that they are categorically incompetent due to a flaw in their education, even if we make some allowance for them not studying as rigorously as their international peers for whatever reason.

However, if the news can be believed, we're now seeing a significant number of CS graduates who are unable to find employment. This is coming on the tail end of a bunch of highly publicized layoffs.

The notion that there "Aren't Americans to do these jobs" just doesn't track. I'm sure that there are lots of corporate executives who are saying that there aren't enough qualified Americans to do these jobs, but they're saying that because it's in their best economic interest to say that, not because it's actually true.

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1. vasilipupkin ◴[20 Sep 25 10:52 UTC] No.45312194[source]▶
there are too many CS grads without experience who are not very good. We have world class universities, by no means that implies that every new CS graduate is world class. A median CS graduate most likely cannot pass a basic interview in CS