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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/donald-trump-h1b-visas-overhaul-00574345
The Trump administration announced Friday that H-1B visas will now come with a $100,000 annual fee, but the White House says it will only apply to new visa applicants.
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I hope this cripples the companies that backed MAGA. Unfortunately, it’ll put small businesses out completely though.
It’s a shakedown.Put a couple million in the “Trump Presidential Library” and you get the workers your business needs.
usually its tech that will likely have to choose between offshoring thier employees or hire domestically.
This is all about the grift. It is just another way to force businesses to come groveling to this administration. More corruption and bribes will ensue with exceptions for those who play ball.
And will corporations learn that Republicans are as bad for business as they are for civil rights, human rights, natural rights, and any other kind of right?
No. They will not. Because a handful of multibillionaires own and control all the corporations.
they also control most if not all of the MSM and social media as a propaganda arm of conservatives.
I actually had this idea myself, with the idea being that corporations should basically pay a tax for H1B if they are going to keep hiring H1B over domestic workers. However, my idea was tied to hours worked, so they can’t exploit them with unfair workloads.
if they restrict h1b visas, nothing stopping them from solely hiring Indians in INDIA without having them move to the US, so no visa needed, thereby circumventing the visas. they probably will hire domestically, mostly senior or “x amount experience” so they can keep things from falling apart or training the overseas team.
Tax the offshore engineering and R&D, too. My company plays both these cards with a China office to hire local, cheaper talent plus manufacturing is local so they help domestically on their side. Thats a win. Then they hire tons of Indian H1B for engineering in America.
This doesn’t just affect corporations, it will also severely impact universities who hire professors and lecturers from all over the world on this type of visa. Schools are not going to be able to afford this, further eroding the quality of higher education in the US.
Aren’t US universities paying millions of dollars for their football coaches and stadiums? They can afford it, of course doesn’t mean they will.
There are donors who donate to the sports teams and donors who donate to the academic side etc it’s different money the institutions have to keep separate
Mine sure isn’t. We were having funding problems before the pandemic.
It’s not as simple as that. Where money comes from and goes to are complicated enough, but paying $100k sponsorship, per year, per person hired from abroad would be just like adding that sum to their payroll, and that would monkey wrench the gears spectacularly.
These visas are used to depress wages. They pay these guest workers less, and can get them deported at the drop of a hat. This might not be that bad of a thing.
I was going to say this too; a rare one of Trump’s policies that seems workable.
There’s supposed to be a rule where H1B permits first require the company to exhaust national hires; but they do this by simply inventing qualifications no one can fill. I don’t know how you can fix that part, but a price tag is good friction.
Still, this leads to trouble for the industries where we really don’t have any local talent. I want to say the federal government could approve exemptions ad hoc, but I doubt anyone would trust them to control that.
I think you’re thinking of the PERM labour test, which is for green card, not H1B.
Is it not obvious this is just another shake down!?
It’s a bad thing for america, good for all the countries that have experienced significant poaching of talent by the US, IMO.
How many geniuses from the global south get imported into the US for better wages
I think that you and /u/hector@lemmy.today are both right. The effect depends on the quality of talent that gets imported.
Importing top talent gives the US a competitive edge. Importing average people floods the labor market, depressing wages. This increases social division, adding to the profits of the capitalist class, but reducing the purchasing power of the median household.
How does workers getting paid less become good for the us?
It does not, good for billionaires and america have scant overlap on them. There is nothing good for the us in depressing wages while bosses male record profits.
Layoffs are happening. Job numbers were overstated by 911,000. Let’s fix the job market by removing 85,000 workers.
Employers seem to hate wage labor. I look forward to a future where workers keep work done.
Hard to be pissed about more jobs
What’ll happen is the entire offices get moved overseas instead.
With the Department of Education getting cut more and more, funds cut to higher education when we should be making it free for everyone…
The few jobs Americans will be qualified for in the future, primarily services like:
Those will disappear as well. Only jobs left for red meat 'Mericans will be picking fields on farms, you know, the ones ICE has been making available.
So, don’t worry! Dear Leader is making the Merican jobs available for ya’ll while making sure not to over educate anybody and doing more to ensure those woke office intellectual jobs don’t come to our golden shores.
That’s not how it works. Restricting the labor supply slows the economy, which means fewer jobs.
Could be fewer jobs when companies find it more efficient to relocate teams outside of the US.
If the team inside was non-citizens, and they team outside is non-citizens, there is no change.
So after the Hyundai-LG plant raid he tweeted it was a mistake and that he needed skilled engineers for company’s building in the US. That they’re very important.
Then announces that those same engineers will need to pay 100k to get in.
Slow-clap for his brilliance.
I think you’re slightly misstating things. Those engineers will not pay 100K, it makes no sense at all. A potential employer could pay, but there’s no chance an employee would.
I’m sure the employers definitely will
i think those engineers from korea uses a different visa? korea already kinda relented to trumps demands.
Trump isn’t making these calls play-by-play. He set ICE loose with a quota. Shit happens. “Not like that!” His handlers are scrambling to contain the nonsense. Don’t expect it to make sense.
He’s a Russian asset with dementia, shepherded by a mentally ill, psychopathic, Christian Taliban.
This is the best they can do. Either way, Ji and Putin win.
Here we go again with the russian asset stuff. He’s his own asset. He doesn’t know what he’s doing, he’s inept. To think that there’s some master plan he’s trying to get at is foolish. He’s the heritage foundation’s asset if anything.
The more you say it, the more likely it is to stop being true.
Which is more important–him being taco, or you reassuring yourself?
What are you even talking about?
Evotech@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I love small government