[VRay]

Yeah, man, the one thing I was really hopeful about with Trump was some serious h1b reform. If a president who hates both tech companies and immigrants didn't do it, I don't think anyone will.. (for the record, I'd prefer to just hand out green cards rather than exploitative work visas..)

[addicted]

Of course what Trump actually did was make people’s lives more miserable, uncertain, and gave the body shop like companies even more agency and power over their workers. Unlike the Obama administration which changed rules to the extent they could (Congress hasn’t passed changes to immigration law in nearly 3 decades now and the executive is necessarily constrained) to reduce the percentage of visas that went to body shops and also prosecuted many of them for their exploitation.

Of course, Trump’s utter indifference, actually attempts to make immigration worse both for immigrants and citizens, was completely predictable.

[ricardobayes]

exactly. What kind of country wouldn't want capable engineers to come in?

[cinntaile]

They want even more to have capable engineers and not having to pay top dollar for their skills.