| It's comments like this that make those of us who are of immigrant origins or the children of immigrants indifferent to losses even if we are impacted as well. Employers abusing the H1B process like WITCH is a known problem and everyone wants it resolved, but going back and implicitly implying that immigrants are subpar pisses people off. If a cabinet member trashes a semiconductor launch [0] that would have made 9k jobs in GOP-leaning upstate NY, the CEO of that company (who also invented the entire field of flash memory) may as well hedge and shift abroad [1] helping other countries move up the HBM value chain [2]. And even the Trump admin is giving a helping hand [3][4]. If you can't respect our community, why shouldn't we geopolitically hedge as well? [0] - https://www.syracuse.com/micron/2026/01/trump-cabinet-member... [1] - https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260123VL207/micron-commerc... [2] - https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZAICbxB0kT0 [3] - https://youtube.com/watch?v=uDtm-k6JvI8 [4] - https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/04/the-india-us-tru... |
However that doesn't mean that the real political support for masses of H1-Bs was ever about talent. It was about lowering labor costs by semi-exploiting large numbers of immigrants willing to work insane hours knowing they'd loose their visa's otherwise.
There's also lots of talented American's here by immigration or born here who were affected by all developer salaries being suppressed by the big H1-B visa abusers.