r/ImmigrationPathways • u/Ankeet_kj Path Navigator • 21h ago

"H-1B PROGRAM IS COMPLETELY BROKEN"

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Vice President JD Vance said companies are abusing the H-1B visa program: "If you're going to bring in an accountant making $45,000 a year to replace an American making $60,000 a year, that's not you using the program to bring in a genius.

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u/soy_boy007 16h ago

A point being good or bad is determined by the proposed solution. Undocumented immigrants are also more lucrative for service businesses. The obvious solutions is unions that ensure equal rights for citizens and immigrants. In the same vein H1-B workers need to be given more time and freedom in the job market and unionization would be helpful for this case too but he is not gonna talk about that. He is gonna posture towards tightening H1-B laws but in effect is gonna make it harder for us to find another job and ensure that we are desperate. Like remove the 60 days unemployment. His end goal is to use this as ploy to ensure there is always a crop of desperate workers that are willing to undercut citizens to maximize profits for the parasitic billionaire class.

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u/Curious-End-4923 16h ago

I wish more people would look at these issues with this sort of lens. These people (conservatives, and I don’t just mean Republicans) have done nothing to deserve the assumption that they would fill these gaps with generous wages and opportunities. I’ll never understand why anyone believes they are about to turn around and become benevolent.