chapotraphouse

An H-1B visa is a kind of temporary work visa employers can apply for, it is for "specialized" immigrant workers. Generally math/engineering type stuff.

Chuds hate it because racism and "they took our jerbs," when it should be opposed because it crates a category of laborer that are even more precariously under the thumb of their employer (their immigration status is essentially determined by their employer's ability to extract further surplus from them.)

The H-1B visa status expires at the end of the employment period, and there is no grace period to remain in the U.S. beyond that date.

H1B visas are just work visas for "highly skilled labour" to immigrate to the United States. There's a cap of ~65k issued per year, and it's usually used by large tech conglomerates and other large companies to hire foreign labour and bring them to the United States. A lot of these H1B visa immigrants are South Asian because India has the most IT specialists in the world and many of them speak good English. There's like a right wing civil war going on right now where Elon and co say they need H1Bs because native born Americans don't work as hard as immigrants (which in my experience is true, immigrants always work harder, highly paid or not, since immigration is already self selecting and they went through a lot of work to immigrate and are primarily motivated by money hence the economic migration) and the white supremacist MAGA guys saying H1Bs are contributing to the Great Replacement or whatever.

Its brain-draining countries and then lording over those educated immigrants and throwing them back to their countries, when they are no longer useful. Its a disgusting and amoral system.