Chapotraphouse

The H-1B visa program sucks for everyone who doesn't own a business. H-1B workers get paid less, can't move jobs, can't collectively bargain and have to do anything their employer wants them to do or get deported. I have a friend on an H-1B and his wife is also on an H-1B, but their companies don't allow them to move so they have to live apart. For domestic workers, it increases competition in a brutal job market and reduces collective bargaining (H-1B workers usually scab because they have no other option) and depresses wages. The only party who benefits are CEOs because they can get (and coerce) capable labor for cheap.

A lot of capitalists (Elon, Intel) like it too. Trump is tariffing the border of both goods and labor, so the costs are gonna spike.

Precisely. Where ever will they be able to find a hundred thousand dollars for an indentured servant who suddenly has no other employment options?

Yep, that is the visa category that caused a division in the MAGA coalition last December. The tech fascists that employ people wanted H-1B for cheap exploitable labor, while the rest of the MAGA was of the opinion that they were visas for immigrants to come in, so must be opposed.

Or hate, potentially. The skilled worker visa.

We’re proimmigrant until it comes to Indians