Hey, Crazy H1-B Visa Guy. Trump loves H1-Bs

[jsteele]

Trump says Americans don't have talent and therefore we have to import talent:

[Anonymous]

Go offshore yourself while you're at it.

[jsteele]

H1-B Guy, you comment on every other thread. Why not this one?

[Anonymous]

Hmm, does this mean that Jeff supports Trump now? wow, never thought I would see Jeff agree with Trump.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Hmm, does this mean that Jeff supports Trump now? wow, never thought I would see Jeff agree with Trump.

I support policies, not personalities. Trump is a demented fool. But H1-B guy loves him for some reason,

[Anonymous]

Trump talks out of both sides of his mouth on this topic. While he criticized the program at times, at other times he has made comments during interviews or on social media in support of the H1B program.

- **January 11, 2019 (X Post)**: Trump reassured H-1B holders of upcoming changes to simplify their stays, including a "potential path to citizenship," emphasizing the need to "encourage talented and highly skilled people to pursue career options in the U.S."

- **August 18, 2015 (X Post)**: As a candidate, Trump outlined his "H-1B reform plan" to make the program benefit the country over lobbyists, noting it would garner bipartisan support. This framed H-1B as a tool for national gain when properly reformed.

- **February 15, 2018 (X Post)**: In advocating merit-based immigration, Trump urged Congress to adopt such a system to ensure "people ready, willing and able to help all of those companies moving into the USA." H-1B is a core component of merit-based skilled worker visas.

- **March 4, 2016 (X Post)**: Trump shared a link to his official position paper on visas, which, while calling for H-1B reforms, affirmed the program's value for high-skilled immigration when not abused.

- **December 28, 2024 (Reported Interview, New York Post)**: Transitioning to his second term, Trump stated, "I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them... I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program." He sided with Elon Musk in a MAGA debate, defending H-1B for bringing in "critical people" who built companies like SpaceX and Tesla.

- **January 3, 2025 (Reported Interview, Fox News)**: Trump denied changing his mind, insisting he's "always been in favor" of H-1B, and highlighted its role in economic growth by allowing "quality people" to expand businesses.

- **January 22, 2025 (White House Remarks)**: Trump reaffirmed support, stating the U.S. needs "competent and great individuals" via H-1B for roles like tech experts, maitre d's, and wine specialists, as it "expands businesses and takes care of everybody."

[Anonymous]

But as to your point, we KNOW republicans are evil and want to screw workers. no debate. the tragedy is that Democrats who used to be the party of labor, have abandoned US workers. They claim they support them but their actions speak for themselves. what would cause a country to vote for an idiot like Trump? Why are Democrats unable to address why they lost to this psychopath?

anyone that has worked in software has seen how capitalists have abandoned our children to replace them with cheaper disposable temporary guest! workers. How could that have happened? because it helps the investor class.

and yeh, Democrats lost in 2016 and 2024. Largely due to immigration issues.

By June 2024, “immigration” was the second most important issue among the nearly 1,600 U.S. adults polled by The Economist/YouGov that month, trailing only “inflation/prices”. Given that Trump won the popular vote by just 1.6 percentage points (49.9 percent for the Trump/Vance ticket compared to 48.3 percent for Harris/Walz), the fact that Trump did so well with swing voters was key to his victory.

Among total swing voters who ultimately chose Trump, immigration was a key issue, with 77 percent of them believing that it was “extremely” or “very accurate” to say Democrats are “not tough enough on addressing the border crisis” and 73 percent feeling the same way about Democrats “support[ing] immigrants more than American citizens”.

Moreover, 73 percent of Trump-supporting swing voters thought it was either extremely or very accurate to state that Democrats “want to take money from hard-working Americans and give it to immigrants”, 72 percent of them believed it is fair to think Democrats “don’t care about securing the border”, and 69 percent concurred with the statement that Democrats “have extreme ideas about immigration”.

And current Democrats hate the deplorables, i.e. the US working class. those RACISTS, how dare they want to support their families. maybe if Democrats focused on policies that US voters want, they would get re-elected. One of those is to help our own children first. Help our own children get good entry level jobs with health care.

when did it become moral to allow American companies to replace our own children with cheap temporary labor?

and if you really believe capitalists when they say they need workers take a look at one of many lists of layoffs. clearly you don't agree with Trump. you would have to be living in a cave to not see what is happening.

-> https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/job-market-new-grads-unemployment.html
-> https://www.businessinsider.com/recent-company-layoffs-laying-off-workers-2025#automattic-tumblrs-parent-cuts-16-of-staff-6

If Democrats would start focusing on US workers, stop the illegal immigration, pause the legal immigration of cheap workers, i.e. repeal H1B and OPT and L1, they would never lose. and we could start working to reverse the damage. 3 Supreme Court picks lost , how many this time?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Trump says Americans don't have talent and therefore we have to import talent:

Which H1B will replace Laura??

[Anonymous]

Omg isn’t this a switch? Guess Amazon and big tech are getting their moneys worth.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Trump says Americans don't have talent and therefore we have to import talent:

from 2016

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Trump says Americans don't have talent and therefore we have to import talent:

What never surprises me - whenever Trump doesn't like history, a policy, etc, he always says "you" as if he is not POTUS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But as to your point, we KNOW republicans are evil and want to screw workers. no debate. the tragedy is that Democrats who used to be the party of labor, have abandoned US workers. They claim they support them but their actions speak for themselves. what would cause a country to vote for an idiot like Trump? Why are Democrats unable to address why they lost to this psychopath?

anyone that has worked in software has seen how capitalists have abandoned our children to replace them with cheaper disposable temporary guest! workers. How could that have happened? because it helps the investor class.

and yeh, Democrats lost in 2016 and 2024. Largely due to immigration issues.

By June 2024, “immigration” was the second most important issue among the nearly 1,600 U.S. adults polled by The Economist/YouGov that month, trailing only “inflation/prices”. Given that Trump won the popular vote by just 1.6 percentage points (49.9 percent for the Trump/Vance ticket compared to 48.3 percent for Harris/Walz), the fact that Trump did so well with swing voters was key to his victory.

Among total swing voters who ultimately chose Trump, immigration was a key issue, with 77 percent of them believing that it was “extremely” or “very accurate” to say Democrats are “not tough enough on addressing the border crisis” and 73 percent feeling the same way about Democrats “support[ing] immigrants more than American citizens”.

Moreover, 73 percent of Trump-supporting swing voters thought it was either extremely or very accurate to state that Democrats “want to take money from hard-working Americans and give it to immigrants”, 72 percent of them believed it is fair to think Democrats “don’t care about securing the border”, and 69 percent concurred with the statement that Democrats “have extreme ideas about immigration”.

And current Democrats hate the deplorables, i.e. the US working class. those RACISTS, how dare they want to support their families. maybe if Democrats focused on policies that US voters want, they would get re-elected. One of those is to help our own children first. Help our own children get good entry level jobs with health care.

when did it become moral to allow American companies to replace our own children with cheap temporary labor?

and if you really believe capitalists when they say they need workers take a look at one of many lists of layoffs. clearly you don't agree with Trump. you would have to be living in a cave to not see what is happening.

-> https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/job-market-new-grads-unemployment.html
-> https://www.businessinsider.com/recent-company-layoffs-laying-off-workers-2025#automattic-tumblrs-parent-cuts-16-of-staff-6

If Democrats would start focusing on US workers, stop the illegal immigration, pause the legal immigration of cheap workers, i.e. repeal H1B and OPT and L1, they would never lose. and we could start working to reverse the damage. 3 Supreme Court picks lost , how many this time?

I have worked close to tech at large companies for 10 years now. Pretty much every major company now is highly technology focused and spends millions and millions on tech. Most people have no clue just how many pieces of tech there are that go into the things they take for granted every day. Banking, media, retail, etc.

There are some American born people here and there in these departments, but a large % is foreign born. It is not only the off shore customer support work that people think of, but the on site employees who are H1b as well as dozens and dozens of back end tech SaaS providers that may be US based but use their own offshore teams too.

Companies do not care that they aren’t giving jobs to Americans. They are always looking for the most cost effective way to run things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But as to your point, we KNOW republicans are evil and want to screw workers. no debate. the tragedy is that Democrats who used to be the party of labor, have abandoned US workers. They claim they support them but their actions speak for themselves. what would cause a country to vote for an idiot like Trump? Why are Democrats unable to address why they lost to this psychopath?

anyone that has worked in software has seen how capitalists have abandoned our children to replace them with cheaper disposable temporary guest! workers. How could that have happened? because it helps the investor class.

and yeh, Democrats lost in 2016 and 2024. Largely due to immigration issues.

By June 2024, “immigration” was the second most important issue among the nearly 1,600 U.S. adults polled by The Economist/YouGov that month, trailing only “inflation/prices”. Given that Trump won the popular vote by just 1.6 percentage points (49.9 percent for the Trump/Vance ticket compared to 48.3 percent for Harris/Walz), the fact that Trump did so well with swing voters was key to his victory.

Among total swing voters who ultimately chose Trump, immigration was a key issue, with 77 percent of them believing that it was “extremely” or “very accurate” to say Democrats are “not tough enough on addressing the border crisis” and 73 percent feeling the same way about Democrats “support[ing] immigrants more than American citizens”.

Moreover, 73 percent of Trump-supporting swing voters thought it was either extremely or very accurate to state that Democrats “want to take money from hard-working Americans and give it to immigrants”, 72 percent of them believed it is fair to think Democrats “don’t care about securing the border”, and 69 percent concurred with the statement that Democrats “have extreme ideas about immigration”.

And current Democrats hate the deplorables, i.e. the US working class. those RACISTS, how dare they want to support their families. maybe if Democrats focused on policies that US voters want, they would get re-elected. One of those is to help our own children first. Help our own children get good entry level jobs with health care.

when did it become moral to allow American companies to replace our own children with cheap temporary labor?

and if you really believe capitalists when they say they need workers take a look at one of many lists of layoffs. clearly you don't agree with Trump. you would have to be living in a cave to not see what is happening.

-> https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/job-market-new-grads-unemployment.html
-> https://www.businessinsider.com/recent-company-layoffs-laying-off-workers-2025#automattic-tumblrs-parent-cuts-16-of-staff-6

If Democrats would start focusing on US workers, stop the illegal immigration, pause the legal immigration of cheap workers, i.e. repeal H1B and OPT and L1, they would never lose. and we could start working to reverse the damage. 3 Supreme Court picks lost , how many this time?

I have worked close to tech at large companies for 10 years now. Pretty much every major company now is highly technology focused and spends millions and millions on tech. Most people have no clue just how many pieces of tech there are that go into the things they take for granted every day. Banking, media, retail, etc.

There are some American born people here and there in these departments, but a large % is foreign born. It is not only the off shore customer support work that people think of, but the on site employees who are H1b as well as dozens and dozens of back end tech SaaS providers that may be US based but use their own offshore teams too.

Companies do not care that they aren’t giving jobs to Americans. They are always looking for the most cost effective way to run things.

How did we send people into space without H1-B’s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump talks out of both sides of his mouth on this topic. While he criticized the program at times, at other times he has made comments during interviews or on social media in support of the H1B program.

- **January 11, 2019 (X Post)**: Trump reassured H-1B holders of upcoming changes to simplify their stays, including a "potential path to citizenship," emphasizing the need to "encourage talented and highly skilled people to pursue career options in the U.S."

- **August 18, 2015 (X Post)**: As a candidate, Trump outlined his "H-1B reform plan" to make the program benefit the country over lobbyists, noting it would garner bipartisan support. This framed H-1B as a tool for national gain when properly reformed.

- **February 15, 2018 (X Post)**: In advocating merit-based immigration, Trump urged Congress to adopt such a system to ensure "people ready, willing and able to help all of those companies moving into the USA." H-1B is a core component of merit-based skilled worker visas.

- **March 4, 2016 (X Post)**: Trump shared a link to his official position paper on visas, which, while calling for H-1B reforms, affirmed the program's value for high-skilled immigration when not abused.

- **December 28, 2024 (Reported Interview, New York Post)**: Transitioning to his second term, Trump stated, "I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them... I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program." He sided with Elon Musk in a MAGA debate, defending H-1B for bringing in "critical people" who built companies like SpaceX and Tesla.

- **January 3, 2025 (Reported Interview, Fox News)**: Trump denied changing his mind, insisting he's "always been in favor" of H-1B, and highlighted its role in economic growth by allowing "quality people" to expand businesses.

- **January 22, 2025 (White House Remarks)**: Trump reaffirmed support, stating the U.S. needs "competent and great individuals" via H-1B for roles like tech experts, maitre d's, and wine specialists, as it "expands businesses and takes care of everybody."

This is the social compact breaking down. We need urgency to restore it:

1 - Mass deportations
2 - Stop the H-1B scam
3 - Dramatically reduce LEGAL Immigration
4 - End chain migration and the Visa Lottery
5 - Build 10 million homes for Americans
6 - Crush the College Cartel

[Anonymous]

This story probably deserves its own thread but I’ll leave it here for now.