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pinkstarburst

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3. As long as we have tech companies laying off US workers

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Apr 5, 2026, 04:01 PM

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to the tune of 30,000 workers at a time here, 20,000 workers at a time there, we don't need to be having H-1Bs in the tech industry. Any company that has mass layoffs should, in fact, have as many current H-1Bs as it holds immediately revoked, equal to the number of US workers they just laid off.

There are too many tech workers in the US who are currently out of work, and the problem is only getting worse because of AI. We don't need any H-1Bs in tech at this point. It's a program that has been exploited for years so that companies can pay non-US workers a fraction of what they would have to pay a US citizen.

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