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by leptons 166 days ago
Your take only applies to recent developments. For the entirety of the H visa program, it has brought in very valuable talent, which stayed here to generate incredible wealth for the country. "onlyfans" is a recent thing. The kickbacks are a relatively new thing. Sure immigration is broken, but that's what happens when the government is intent on breaking the country.
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Onlyfans is a recent thing, but the First Lady had an EB-1 Einstein visa when she was posing for…interesting photos.
You mistyped Epstein visa
The fact that these visas are abused by people in power is completely different and in the end minor issue. I would bet vast majority of EB-1 are pretty out of the ordinary.

This is just derailing the discussion. Visas for privileged individuals bad = immigration bad.

Well you are right about one thing. Government is intent on breaking the country. But rampant immigration immigration fraud and abuse has been around for decades.
The H visa program has been heavily exploited since the 1990s when I started in tech. By recent do you mean 26 years?
Was the visa program being exploited by Onlyfans models and "influencers" in the 1990's? Because that is what is being talked about here.
Your statements such as

"only applies to recent development" "For the entirety of the H visa program" "is a recent thing. The kickbacks are a relatively new thing."

expand the conversation scope to responding to what you state, and for me to say that in fact what you are claiming is incorrect.