Posted on 10/01/2025 7:47:46 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Florida politician Anthony Sabatini has sparked debate over the H-1B visa row, tweeting a call for “a complete and total shutdown.” The move comes in the wake of President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement of a $100,000 fee on new H-1B applications, aimed at curbing alleged abuses of the program.
Far-right politician Sabatini on Monday tweeted, “I am calling for a complete and total shutdown of H-1 B visas until we can find out what is going on.” His tweet went viral in no time, given the ongoing debate surrounding the H-1B visa and its impact on the American workforce and the tech industry, which is the biggest beneficiary of these visas. Companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and other tech giants hire large numbers of foreign workers on H-1B visas because of the high demand for specialised skills that may not be fully met by the domestic workforce.
The move has caused panic among foreign workers and companies that rely on H-1B talent. While the fee does not affect current visa holders, firms hiring new H-1B employees are now facing huge costs. Many are worried about how this will affect their ability to hire skilled tech workers from abroad.
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Should be calling for a total abolition of the program
“without skilled workforce”? The implication is that America is unable to produce that workforce. Rather than importing those workers, we should be importing their teachers and/or education systems.
If there are no American that can do the job, then that should be an embarrassment to everyone involved in education. We indeed have a large section of population that consists of uneducable layabouts, and there is little that can be done with them. I don’t believe the work-around is to import third world foreign workers.
Wiki calls him far right so he must be a good one.
” Many are worried about how this will affect their ability to hire skilled tech workers from abroad”
Tons of kids getting Comp Sci degrees right now who are not getting internships or job offers.
No need at all for supposedly “skilled” tech workers from the Indian subcontinent. They can just stay there and Make India Not So Great Again!
It is so insulting. Until we start burning globalists at the stake change will be hard.
Since when is common sense a far right ideology?
“‘Calling for total H-1B visa shutdown, until…’: Republican leader sparks debate over America’s future without skilled workforce
America’s skilled work force saved the world in WW2 and is doing a pretty good job right now. Importing a foreign work force isn’t the answer. Immigrants who want to come here and show allegiance to the USA are welcome to come here and work.
If we can’t produce internal (i.e. from our own citizenry) talent qualified to maintain (and grow) our place in the world, then we have much bigger problems than H1Bs. Fixing that should be our number one priority.
If Americans can’t be guaranteed (reasonably) a shot at success without being displace by non-US citizens, many won’t take the chance of spending a ton of money and time preparing for a career that carries a high chance of being given to a non-citizen. Ultimately that hurts the US, tremendously, and possibly irrevocably.
I am a ‘live free or die’ person, and I am 100% for rewarding people for their talents and efforts. That said, there are too many people with financial power in America NOT the result of hard work, innovation, and sacrifice, but by being a weaslely parasite - waiting for the chance to steal the gazelle that someone else worked hard to catch.
Ultimately, or society is somewhat like a pyramid game, but traditionally one that you could do well in if you worked hard and stuck it out. More recently it is more likely a conman’s pyramid scheme. Shipping jobs to non-citizens will eventually lead to the destruction of the American experiment
I hope there are enough Americans who can do math - I worry there are not.
Eliminating H1Bs is a good thing for us and the other countries. Talent from other nations should stay in their respective nations. Draining the brains from the third world keeps the the countries the third world. We are full and have plenty of skilled “workers.” (I hate using marxist language but here we are.) If it is truly impossible for a company to find an American to do a skilled service there is a new invention from Al Gore called the inter webs that allows anyone in the world to remotely work. It is pretty cool and might be a big thing. H1Bs are just to save corporations money. I thought democrats hated corporations anyway.
Plenty of highly skilled unemployed native borns in the US. Rack that fee up to one million, and make it immediate and for existing H1-B holders. That would let it die by its own hand with less political fallout for the Republicans.
First it was “who will pick our tomatoes?”. Now it’s “who will do our high paying tech jobs?”. And both imports are low IQ, uneducated filth.
“Hey, marcus, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort of maintaining Free Republic so's you got a place to spam and troll, you know.”
Skilled workforce ?
Send in some cash to the Q4 Freep-A-Thon!
We don’t need any of their teachers or education systems.
They need ours, which is why they came here.
This is a list of the graduating class of California Polytechnic University - San Luis Obispo, generally considered to be one of the better technical education schools in California and the US:
Tab down to “Computer Science”. There are literally hundreds of graduates. And that’s just one school. The UC system and other Cal State system schools produce similar numbers.
No shortage of American technical graduates, although I would hesitate to label all of these people as “American”. A lot of them are in fact the children of H1-B’s. But still a fair number of actual citizens.
Both graduated with respectable grades and she got a job almost immediately in Monroeville, an eastern suburb of Pittsburgh.
The guy was getting zero interviews and zero offers despite a strong IT presence in the 'burgh. Meanwhile, his classmates from India with comparable grades were getting MULTIPLE offers, some without even interviewing.
Eventually, he had to settle for a job in Allentown, opposite end of the commonwealth and commute home on weekends. This was about 2012.
Eventually, someone smuggled a video camera into a seminar in downtown Pittsburgh which was entitled (I kid you not) "How not to hire an American" which was attended by IT HR executives. When it was posted and went viral, it caused such a firestorm that eventually one of the IT attendees reached out and invited the young man to an interview where he was finally able to land a job in the same metro area as his wife.
Long story short is that there are basically two reasons why Americans don't get hired for these jobs. The first is that the IT companies are dominated by people from India who prefer to hire their own kind. The second is that those which are not just love the indentured servitude aspects of the H-1B visa for the cost savings and are addicted to cheap. The result is that American kids see so many similar experiences of the young man in my narrative and skip IT degrees.
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