H-1B visa controversy sparks MAGA infighting

Former Republican Congressman John Katko and Rob Bluey, president and executive editor of The Daily Signal, discuss the MAGA infighting over H-1B visas.

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[MSSIAH-]

You telling me the guy who makes his hats in China is not really America first?😂😂😂

[BobSacamano]

You mean maga supporters didnt see any of this commin?

[t-n-z]

While it is indeed critical to keep bringing in highly skilled people, some 75% of receipts of H1B visas are people from India! Doesn’t this signal a potential abuse of H1B?!

[New-qljf]

Stop H-1B visa. let focus on American.

[wvvwwvwvv]

Plumber was covered under H1B, lets not pretend these are all super engineers coming over....

[epicOway]

Trump flip flops again. He's supporting Musk expanding H1B.

[Babeatrice]

Maga voted for trump #1 because they believed he would restrict imigration and protect their jobs..





😂😂😂

[dvd]

One of the reasons unemployment for Americans is really high

[henryrayos]

'MAGA' or 'America First' quickly turned into 'Profits First' for these 2 oligarch billionaires... Quite disappointed with these 2 TROJAN HORSE.. tsk tsk tsk...

[albert-ps]

I'm glad President Musk is taking the charge on the matter. He needs to put his plus one in his place.

[gethsemanepolk]

Why can't we American people be trained for these jobs?

[maxmudc]

Out of 85k H1Bs issued per year, the highly skilled PhD foreigners exceeding properly educated Americans are far less than 8k, conservatively speaking. Increasing that H1B cap will only make one American applicant compete with 1, 000 H1B applicants instead of the current 100 for average tech jobs. Yes, corporates like cheaper overworking H1B workers.

[randyosborne]

Millions of non-americans have better Healthcare here than paying Americans do.

[larrywu]

This country wouldn't need H-1B workers if our education system, over the past 30 years, had been effective in preparing our kids for the demands of rapidly evolving tech jobs.

[CesarAnton]

Lead software engineer here.

That is a misconception, having a Master or a PhD is only entry level requirement. It will help you skip the Jr. level and make you the most interesting candidate but that's about it.

For a senior level you would need at least a Master degree *and* at least 5 years of experience to be considered for the tech interview, and even with those credentials most people won't pass the interview. Even if you are a world class developer it doesn't guarantee you will be the right fit for that team.

People tends to assume that by having a Master or a PhD will guarantee you'll get the job and fail to understand that it's just an entry level requirement, the foundation. But you have much better chances to move up the ranks faster if you have 1 or 2 masters and a PhD.

Greetings from NYC

[ChannelH.Dunbar-lwqg]

😅😂😅😂😅😂 dang y'all didn't 👀 any of this coming

[WilliamBong]

The usual suspects. The greedy taking from the needy.

[zicob]

Who's looking out for American engineers?

[Dragonpro-er]

The USA can instantly free up almost 300K good paying jobs for US Citizens, just by remove the H4-EAD privilege for the spouse of H1-B ( as was the case before May 2015). that will also relieve pressure on housing price in the 50 biggest US cities to some extent... as some newly built neighborhoods in 2023 2024 have more than 50% occupants that are on H1-B and their H4 EAD spouses.

[JC-wsld]

President elect elon Musk is not even the president yet, and now they have a civil war against each other, lol