[zang]

The H1B presser was a good indicator that Trump isn't really running the show any more. They basically have to explain the policy to him in the room on air, and he kind of waves away and says yeah that sounds great whatever. He seems more concerned with building his ballroom. I'm confident they just tell him whatever they think will make him happy and then do everything else in the background. There's zero chance at this stage he has any idea what an H1B is or what it does. He's not well health-wise and I don't know if he makes it to 2026.

He's certainly not listening to his tech sponsors. H1B visa charges are gonna have an extremely big impact on tech companies. The problem is that those jobs have been filled with H1B visa holders precisely because there aren't enough qualified US citizens. And it's not like these are foreign worker wages; these are $150k/yr+ jobs that have always been just as open to US workers as foreign ones.

No skilled developer's gonna fork over $100k/yr of their own money to make just $50k. If Amazon were to sponsor these its current H1B visa workers under the new rules (and subsequently pay for their $100k fee), it'd be over $1.1B in additional costs to the company.

Unless 500,000 US citizens can suddenly bump up their skillsets dramatically (as to why they wouldn't have before, I don't know), they're gonna be trying to fill these roles for years to come. There just isn't the appetite amongst Americans towards STEM education to replace them. And it's especially damaging when these companies are all poaching from each other for AI supremacy. GO figure, when politicians spend the last decade demonizing science, tech and post-secondary education, you have to be aware it's gonna come home to roost some day.

All the TechBros who sucked up hard to Trump during his inauguration are likely feeling a very deep and very painful sense of regret right now.

 

[Mihairokov]

All the TechBros who sucked up hard to Trump during his inauguration are likely feeling a very deep and very painful sense of regret right now.

Except those who donate and support him, as there is a clause for H1Bs to skip the $100K requirement at the discretion of the secretary. Donate to POTUS and maybe your company won't have to pay H1B fees. Good grift.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Trump and Stephen Miller’s racist obsession with immigration is causing the actual serious threats to the safety of Americans to go ignored and it’s not just happing at DHS, the State Department and the DOJ. Scores of FBI and ATF agents have been reassigned from working on priorities like transnational gangs and terrorism to work routine immigration enforcement according to current and former agents. Trump claims to be tough on crime but if that is the case his priorities are seriously misplaced. Studies done by Stanford University and the CATO institute have shown that immigrants are one of least likely groups to commit crimes. In fact they are 60% less like to commit a crime than native born Americans. Revealing that Trump’s immigration raids will have little impact on crime in America. Additionally, even the immigrants that have committed serious crimes aren’t who Trump is going after. In June officials from ICE confirmed during a Congressional hearing that they have only arrested 6% of immigrants known to have committed homicide. Trump’s entire immigration agenda is a huge waste of time, money and resources and Americans are less safe because of it.

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Trump and Stephen Miller’s racist obsession with immigration is causing the actual serious threats to the safety of Americans to go ignored and it’s not just happing at DHS, the State Department and...

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[UtakataNoAnnex]

Tl,dr: That link only really exists in your head, Trump...

'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say

Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

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