Trump Increases Fee for H1B visas to $100,000

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14. Everything they do stems from bad motives, obviously

This plays into his favorite rhetoric of racism and immigration.

But in this case they may have accidentally stumbled upon something that genuinely needs fixing, a system that WAS and IS being abused by companies to fire US workers from good, high paying tech jobs so they can replace them with H1B visa workers when candidates for those jobs are not scarce or hard to find. They're just gaming the system to avoid having to pay a decent wage to American workers, and that if democrats were to oppose it, that would be incredibly politically unpopular for us. With tech workers. With YOUNG people, who are frustrated they are entering the job market with college degrees and aren't getting hired for tech jobs, while companies are hiring... H1Bs.

This is lose lose for us. It's also one of those things where it's been a problem forever, and was not fixed under the last administration (our watch) and if we make even the smallest bit of noise about it, Trump is going to swing right back around with how he's trying to protect US jobs for US workers and there's too much H1B abuse and why didn't Biden fix this when he was president and we won't have a good answer for that one, because in this instance, he'll be right.

This is the sort of thing I think is really dangerous for us, even more so than when they're doing crazy stuff. People just get angrier when they're doing the crazy stuff like pulling vaccine access. When they do this stuff and it's actually fixing stuff that needed fixing and touching on RW rhetoric... we could stand to lose ground. We need to come up with ideas for what we're running on for 2026. This worries me.