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cadoman

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10. welcome to what folks in construction, farming, & trades have experienced for decades now

Reply to TBA (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 13, 2025, 01:59 PM

Aug 13

You think it's at the bottom but the bottom is when your job is subject to regulations beyond what an H1B would be (insurance, licensing, inspections, etc.) and it becomes financially impossible to compete.

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As a person who has spent a career in the technology sector TBA Aug 13 #1

Amen to that Wicked Blue Aug 13 #2

welcome to what folks in construction, farming, & trades have experienced for decades now cadoman Aug 13 #10

AI is coming for programming jobs anyway. LudwigPastorius Aug 13 #14

AI is part of it TBA Aug 14 #15

They only want immigrants they can get cheap Nigrum Cattus Aug 13 #3

If I remember correctly itcfish Aug 13 #5

I certainly remember Bernie Sanders ClaudetteCC Aug 13 #6

The same could be said of work on dairy farms, meat packing plants, residential construction, ... ClaudetteCC Aug 13 #7

Need more low wage workers. Norrrm Aug 13 #4

And often, even those advertised jobs don't actually exist. PSPS Aug 13 #8

Small Improvement North Coast Lawyer Aug 13 #9

Considering the bloodbath thats happened in tech jobs over the last few years Hieronymus Phact Aug 13 #11

After throwing out graduate students who could stay to work in the US iemanja Aug 13 #12

"...a new system that gives priority in the selection process to registrants who meet or exceed certain criteria..." LudwigPastorius Aug 13 #13

Need foreign workers because not enough qualified Americans? Norrrm Aug 14 #16

I'm all in favor of ending the program (or drastically curtailing it) fujiyamasan Aug 14 #17