[sterlind]

we really need immigration reform. companies prefer H1B workers because they can treat them like indentured servants: they're bound to the company that sponsored their visa, and have only 60 days to find a new job if fired or they'll be deported. companies can also reset the green card process in retaliation if they do leave.

I'm radically pro-immigrant. I want the smartest people from around the world to come work here. I want to unshackle them from their corporate sponsors. the current system is unfair to immigrants (who are bound like serfs to their workplace) and to citizens (who lose jobs because corporations prefer serfs.)

[rurp]

I'm really surprised there isn't more pushback to the program since it has aspects that piss off post political sides. Maybe it's just too wonky for mainstream political coverage. A system of indentured servants really is the best description, the potential for abuse is both obvious and widespread. For the other side of course they can jobs from Americans in many cases. Big tech companies love hiring people they can abuse, especially if they can also pay them less than local hires.

[DragonStrength]

My entire old team at Amazon has been reduced from 8 people of which 5 were citizens (and one got his green card while I was there) to 2 immigrants who arrived right before the pandemic both from different at-war countries. I only know this because after the last round of layoffs one of them reached out to me asking if I could get him out of that hell. Seems pretty straightforward what has happened here.