Trump Increases Fee for H1B visas to $100,000

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8. It would be terrible for us politically to challenge

The H1B program is horribly abused, and it's abused so that companies can fire American workers making good wages--like people in tech, and replace them with immigrant workers that they pay a slave wage to. Computer science grads are finding they are not able to get hired and H1B abuse is a huge part of that. The program was intended so that companies could hire workers when there were no Americans available to work that job. Instead Silicon Valley has become mostly H1B hires, while US computer science grads can't find jobs.

It's being horribly abused.

And if Democrats were to be crazy enough to jump on the bandwagon of trying to support H1B workers from India and their right to American jobs, over US workers who are being fired in order to give those H1B workers from India their jobs, it would be political suicide.

There is sympathy for what is happening to immigrants right now IMHO in large part because the image in many people's minds is that these are hard working people who are working out in the fields and working in meat packing plants and doing jobs US citizens really don't want to do. Watch how fast voters turn on democrats if we start making the argument that we should be for protecting H1B abuse when US citizens are having good, high-paying tech jobs taken from them, and when they can't get rehired, and when new grads can't get hired, and our argument is "but those Indian H1B visa holders should have a job, too."

It's like we want to lose elections...