President dramatically raised cost of visa for highly skilled workers in executive order last year
A US judge has invalidated Donald Trump’s $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications, ruling it an unlawful tax that violated federal administrative law and the constitution.
US district judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the 42-page ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging a fee Trump announced in September that dramatically raised the cost of obtaining H-1B visas… The ruling vacated the sweeping fee, which was a 20-to-50 fold increase on existing rates, and the Trump administration is widely expected to appeal.
In his ruling, Sorokin’s found that the fee amounted to a tax, rather than a regulatory restriction. Since the constitution gives Congress, not the president, the exclusive power to levy taxes, Trump lacked the authority to impose it.
No, it’s only for skilled labor that can’t be filled by Americans.
I held an H1b. It’s for people with unique or advanced skills, usually requires an advanced degree, plus job offer and full explanation by employers. It’s for STEM grads. Established under the Immigration Act of 1990, the H-1B program enables U.S. employers to temporarily hire highly skilled foreign professionals in specialized occupations, primarily in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
Most post-doctoral fellows doing medical research held H1bs, so the fee is redundant because Trump killed the NIH. H1Bs brought higher STEM expertise to the US, whose education system is not producing quality scientists because of the cost of education.
Where the fuck is this thread getting the idea this was for farm workers or skilled trades. Seems like no one here has any idea what an H1B is for.
Sure. That’s why so many companies were forcing their existing employees to train up cheap h1b workers before mass firing them. Because they couldn’t fill them with the Americans that were already doing the job…
Immigrants are also more willing to do more overtime than locals, because the locals would generally say “I can’t do overtime. I’m going to meet my mom for coffee on Sunday morning”. Immigrants are also more likely to do shift work than locals. This isn’t just corroborated by studies but i also know firsthand. So indeed, immigrants do the jobs that locals don’t want to do.
I get the grievances on the effects of immigration on the job market, especially on the working class, but if everyone looks at the bigger picture, the problem is that each countries have their own rules and standards which are being exploited creating a race to the bottom. Poorer countries are cheap for exploitation, while the working class in richer countries, whose jobs were outsourced, are left hanging dry. The local working class are then outcompeted by desperate immigrants who are being exploited by businesses. In my opinion, if there is only a worldwide harmonisation to prevent the race to the bottom caused by mismanagement (or lack thereof) of globalisation…