<story><title>Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881245867/trump-expected-to-suspend-h-1b-other-visas-until-end-of-year</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dx87</author><text>If H-1B visas were being used how they were intended, they would be a good thing, but we often see them used as a way to get cheap labor, or even directly replace American workers.  The company I work at has H-1B junior web developers, hardly &amp;quot;very niche, hard to fill&amp;quot; positions that they can&amp;#x27;t find any qualified Americans to do.</text></item><item><author>awillen</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s just silly... even if you&amp;#x27;re a nationalist, isn&amp;#x27;t the prospect of bringing over talented people from foreign countries to work in America and help our companies profit plus deprive their home countries of their skills a really, really good thing?</text></item><item><author>BolexNOLA</author><text>This has gotten very old very fast (beyond the obvious cruelty). I have several friends who keep watching their colleagues just have to up and leave over this and it’s causing a ton of issues for businesses that employ folks on work visas in general. It’s just disruptive to be disruptive&amp;#x2F;feed the base.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexandercrohde</author><text>For a while I wasn&amp;#x27;t sure if this was just some &amp;quot;talking point.&amp;quot; Then one day, on a hiking meetup, I met a guy who was ranting about his job that was to write &amp;quot;oddly hyper-specific job descriptions that might seem to make no sense&amp;quot; to bring in cheaper h1b candidates.&lt;p&gt;So yeah, it&amp;#x27;s a problem.</text></comment>
<story><title>Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881245867/trump-expected-to-suspend-h-1b-other-visas-until-end-of-year</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dx87</author><text>If H-1B visas were being used how they were intended, they would be a good thing, but we often see them used as a way to get cheap labor, or even directly replace American workers.  The company I work at has H-1B junior web developers, hardly &amp;quot;very niche, hard to fill&amp;quot; positions that they can&amp;#x27;t find any qualified Americans to do.</text></item><item><author>awillen</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s just silly... even if you&amp;#x27;re a nationalist, isn&amp;#x27;t the prospect of bringing over talented people from foreign countries to work in America and help our companies profit plus deprive their home countries of their skills a really, really good thing?</text></item><item><author>BolexNOLA</author><text>This has gotten very old very fast (beyond the obvious cruelty). I have several friends who keep watching their colleagues just have to up and leave over this and it’s causing a ton of issues for businesses that employ folks on work visas in general. It’s just disruptive to be disruptive&amp;#x2F;feed the base.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>The answer here is to actually fix the system with compassion rather than suspend it and harm everyone using it.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not unbiased: I&amp;#x27;m a former H1B visa holder and wasn&amp;#x27;t underpaid at all. I promise you we exist! It&amp;#x27;s not a fun situation to be in... if you have a pending green card application (up to a certain point in the process) you can&amp;#x27;t change jobs easily. And if you come from some countries (India, in particular) you have a wait of ten years or more before receiving your green card.&lt;p&gt;It feels like a collision of a bunch of otherwise unrelated decisions that ultimately harms both immigrant and native workers and only benefits companies. It&amp;#x27;s all fixable, but like so many things in the US right now, not politically possible.</text></comment>