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1 posted on 09/20/2025 5:58:54 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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Why is the American Dream exclusive to immigrants?

Millions of US citizens wish to better their lot in life and achieve the American Dream.


2 posted on 09/20/2025 6:01:34 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (There are no more conspiracy theories, only questions that further the truth.)
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Never brought up — what was/is the fee up til now ?


3 posted on 09/20/2025 6:03:14 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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Too expensive for who?


4 posted on 09/20/2025 6:04:40 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Pornography feeds abortion. Abortion is Satan's ultimate effort to hurt God. )
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But my American dream was to not see any Invaders from India


8 posted on 09/20/2025 6:07:59 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Many on freerepublic suggested this idea as a way for the Trump administration to regulate the use of H1B visas as intended.

It appears the idea has been adopted. Probably the same idea was conceived in many places at about the same time.


9 posted on 09/20/2025 6:12:06 AM PDT by marktwain
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The “American Dream” is for AMERICANS! Unfortunately Americans have been unable to achieve it for years because the politicians have been giving it away to NON-AMERICANS!


10 posted on 09/20/2025 6:17:30 AM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT! Blue Lives Matter! White lives matter. )
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So; I guess they might have to hire more U.S. Citizens and these Indians can enrich India for a change. In another vein, why do Indians own almost every Quickie Mart and Motel that I come across; are they doing this on our dime?
11 posted on 09/20/2025 6:17:58 AM PDT by 55Ford (https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.Xy4oYwb)
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So now, the American Dream goes back to Americans. Hmm? How is that bad?


12 posted on 09/20/2025 6:20:33 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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The American Dream is for Americans. If you want an Indian Dream....build it for yourselves in India. It is not good for America nor fair to American workers to undercut them with a flood of cheap foreign labor. That is not the free market. That is rigging the market to favor corporations and hurt the American middle class.


13 posted on 09/20/2025 6:29:23 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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If the skill is so rare and so unique that there are no Americans available with it so that the company is forced to enlist overseas help, I am sure the company will consider the 100k as a small and very worthwhile price.

On the otherhand if the companies were just trying to save money at the expense of Americans who could do the job, perhaps they ought be too embarrassed to complain.

15 posted on 09/20/2025 6:30:43 AM PDT by AndyTheBear (Certified smarter than average for my species)
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What makes Satya Nadella or Sundar Pichai special other than their our our new media constantly gushing over them. Hundreds of Americans can do as good or better than them.


18 posted on 09/20/2025 6:36:30 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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I dont care about some indians desire to come over here and rape our healthcare, education services. Do it in india. We have massive unemployment of American born citizens who lost their jobs directly because of these indians. They have also driven up home cost by placing ridiculous bids on houses and taking iver entire communities. Plus they are importing their demonic worship and building temples that scar our landscapes.

In business they are uncreative thinkers who merely copy paste ideas and code.

Lastly, they spoil their kids and thosekids are so entitled and racists. Ive personally heard gangs of them 10-15 year olds screaming racists things as they walk through the neighborhood.


20 posted on 09/20/2025 6:40:13 AM PDT by Battlestar (Tired of transgenders, drug addicts, and mentally ill taking over our streets, schools, and governme)
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Be nice to see this retroactive or annual.


21 posted on 09/20/2025 6:49:38 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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Indians can fix their own sh*it hole instead turning this country into one.


23 posted on 09/20/2025 6:54:07 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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The American dream is for Americans first. 😣


25 posted on 09/20/2025 7:06:11 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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It will sharply reduce low and mid-paid H-1B hiring, concentrate approvals on senior and high-value roles

H1B was always sold as a visa for people with special expertise not available in the US. Instead it turned into cheap low level coders and tech support.

My suggestion was to turn it entirely into an auction system where companies would bid for the slots instead of the curent lottery system. But a fixed rate above the low level pay works too.

We want top researchers in chip design, not someone paid $30k to tell you to reboot your system and try again.

26 posted on 09/20/2025 7:07:33 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I pray that the sleeping giant has finally awakened and been filled with a terrible resolve.)
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Stop the H1B program. Send all those already here back where they came from. Enough already. Trojan horses. Hire Americans.


28 posted on 09/20/2025 7:12:40 AM PDT by bgill
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The $100,000 fee is way too high.

The base fee should be around $5,000.

Then there should be an annual inverse salary fee:
1. 10% of the salary amount less than $200,000, plus
2. 20% of the salary amount less than $120,000.

If the salary is $80,000, the annual inverse salary fee would be $12,000 plus $8,000.

The minimum salary amount should be 120% of the most recent DoL salary survey average for the degree and (prorated) years of experience.

The H-1Bs should be bid out and awarded based on the salary premium to the minimum.

The number of winning bids should start at 1,000 and go up by 20 if the average premium increases and down by 20 if the average premium decreases, but to no less than 500 nor more than 2,000.

A bid fee of say $2,000 should be charged to help ensure bids are genuine.

There would be no legal requirement to search for an American candidate. The idea that a qualified American can’t be found is almost always bogus.

For each employer: total H-1B salaries < FICA tax paid in a prior tax year going back up to four years

That would limit H-1Bs to about 8% of employees.

American kids need to sure they have a future before signing for student loans.

New IPO companies might merge with a struggling older company to get their FICA tax minimum, allowing most employees of the older company to stay employed.


29 posted on 09/20/2025 7:15:34 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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First - the American Dream is for Americans. India needs to work on their own problems and create an ‘Indian Dream’... we can not be ‘the dream’ of the world.

Second, this system allows American companies to hire ‘the best the world has to offer’ IF they pay the price. This move by Trump stops American companies from bringing in cheap labor. Good for President Trump.

And third - President Trump needs to do the same reform on the American school system that he did on the ‘Department of Defense’ and DUMP ALL THE LEFT WING sexual weido social ‘experiments’ etc. The job of the military is to fight wars not to make liberal wet dreams come true.

The job of the American School system is to educate our kids NOT To teach pronouns, group think, sexual porn, comminism, gay rights, women’s rights or any of the other left wing crap. Any school ‘celebratibng’ any sexual kink should have it’s doors closed and the principal fired...

We can’t be first in the world if our young women graduate from high school as mean ‘with attitude’ bimbos and our young men defeated by the hate from left wing ‘teachers’ about their toxic masculinity... NONE of that crap belongs in our schools if we want to compete.


30 posted on 09/20/2025 7:16:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (Charlie Kirk worried democrats would murder his children. <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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An H-1B should not ever serve as a chain migration anchor - at most children and a spouse.


31 posted on 09/20/2025 7:23:29 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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