Posted on 07/13/2020 6:09:18 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Alexey Komissarouk, a software engineering manager, was among those let go when San Francisco real estate startup Opendoor laid off more than 600 employees in mid-April in response to the coronavirus pandemic’s economic impact.
As an Israeli citizen working with an H-1B visa, Komissarouk can’t receive unemployment benefits. But more crucially, under immigration rules, losing his job set a clock ticking on his time in the United States.
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Because our universities are mandating that students waste their time and money sitting in classes while be indoctrinated in bi-sexual, multi-cultural, global warming, everything bad caused by white people studies.
Notice they didn’t use an Indian as the highlighted example.
We don’t have US citizen Software Engineering middle managers available?
There are risks to working for a startup. Layoffs can occur out of the blue.
Poor guy should have worked for a major Dalit consulting company. They know how scam the H1B visa better than anyone.
Go home! That is only option. Companies should hir American ONLY.
There’s the exit door. Use it.
Long past time we stopped training our enemies.
Zactly.
There are older workers available for this work.
Don’t care if they have to leave, they are not US citizens.
Yes
The headline tells you right off the bat how you should feel about this particular subject. Don'tcha love modern "journalism"?
Did they somehow think because they’re H-1B holders their jobs wouldn’t be affected as well as their status? Everyones being affected directly or indirectly.
This is not OK NPR.
“1A” is the NPR/ WAMU program that has the First Amendment in its title. Recently they had a panel discussion on H1Bs with 3 panelists all from the same side of the ideological spectrum. All from the left. And the host Sasha-Ann Simons who threw softball questions to them occasionally advancing a conservative concept or tweet from a listener which was then swatted like a piñata by the liberal panelist. This format isn’t unusual for an NPR program.
What’s also not unusual is that NPR tried to defend this lopsided panel with the host Sasha-Ann Simons giving the excuse saying 1A had sought participation from defenders of the visa restrictions: White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, and four Republican Senators: Tom Cotton, Charles Grass, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley. All declined, she said, as did two conservative think tanks, the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. It strains credulity to believe NPR couldn’t find anyone to argue the otherside. The counterpoint. You know, the robust debate they babble about in their code of ethics. So, in typical NPR fashion, they still went ahead with all one-sided, liberal, partisan advocates as their panelists.
But wait. That’s not the worst thing. In a staggering act of hubris, NPR says on air that they essentially BLACKBALLED a conservative think tank, the Center for Immigration Studies. “WE DECLINED TO TALK TO THEM”. About the 17:45 mark here :https://wamu.org/story/20/06/26/what-trumps-restrictions-on-work-visas-could-mean-for-the-future-of-work/
That’s not OK NPR.
(a small segue. NPR never fully explains to the audience why they won’t talk to CIS. Apparently, the Southern Poverty Law Center has branded CIS a hate group, and that’s justification enough for NPR. The new definition for hate group is anyone that disagrees with a liberal.)
When a lack of panel balance has happened in the past, and it’s happened a lot, NPR defenders snarkily assert it’s impossible to provide balance in every show. By balance they continue, NPR means over time. At some time in the future, they will have 3 conservative panelists defending a ban on H1Bs. Sure NPR. We’re waiting.
Hat tip to https://cis.org/Kammer/Cancel-Culture-NPR
losing his job set a clock ticking on his time in the United States.As if any of them ever leave.
Maybe. Maybe not.
If you visit the dumpster fire known as Twitter & enter the #h1b & #s386 tags, you’ll find plenty of Dalit visa holders with an overflowing sense of entitlement to staying here, no matter what.
You got it.
Some of these laid off H1B holders are trying to switch to an F1 to stay here. Become a student until the jobs return.
From his last name, I suspect he (or a parent) was one of the Russian Jews that moved to Israel to avoid persecution. A post-doctoral researcher in our lab at UMASS in the 1980s had been in that situation. He and his wife were glad to get out of Russia and were happy to get to work here for a short time. He was friendly and a helpful coworker.
I spent 6 weeks working in a lab in Israel with one of our consultants. He and his neighbors are freedom loving people who want to practice their religion and culture in peace. My host had been a tank commander in the 6 day war. He and the other tank commanders repelled the invaders. My friend's tank took a direct hit and he was badly burned but recovered and lived a productive life. We both benefited from our work together.
....”you’ll find plenty of Dalit visa holders with an overflowing sense of entitlement to staying here, no matter what”.....
That pretty much applies to any foreigner (legal or not) whose feet land in the USA.
Sorry. No sympathy here.
I was laid off 2 years ago with a bunch of other Americans so that they could keep their H1Bs. It’s cheaper to lay off Americans, because they don’t have to pay Americans repatriation expenses to send them back.
S386 has made (Dalit) entitlement worse these days.
Have a look a this:
https://twitter.com/mariehyde/status/1282656858826825730
The Chronicle must have combed the desert to find an out of work Israeli.
For some reason they always ignore the +100k Indians working in SV brought in under H1b.
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