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I'd like to believe you, but 'the most likely' outcome has not consistently happened recently. Regardless of lobbying, the incoming administration ran a campai

I'd like to believe you, but 'the most likely' outcome has not consistently happened recently. Regardless of lobbying, the incoming administration ran a campaign that was built on anti-immigrant sentiment. Their base wants that. They have to throw their base something. No one in Silicon Valley voted for them or fundraised for them. This could totally happen, and it bothers me as a citizen because a lot of my co workers are on H1-Bs.

devnonymous 10y ago
> No one in Silicon Valley voted for them or fundraised for them. cough Thiel cough
ixacto 10y ago
No one other than Peter thiel. The USA is much more purple than you might imagine. The solution to the H1B fiasco is to let individual companies straight up bid on the 100,000 visas, irreguardless of nationality or occupation and be done with it. Then we could put the money from this into a scholarship fund to pay for US citizens only.
kevbin 10y ago
> No one in Silicon Valley voted for them or fundraised for them. 20% of Santa Clara County voted for Trump. 20% of funds raised in Santa Clara County went to Trump. That's a small fraction by two-party system standards, but it's not no one.
- DrScump 10y ago
  20% of funds raised in Santa Clara County went to Trump Can you provide your source for this? (Not being snarky -- I have trouble finding that level of detail in terms of residence vs. company HQ)
  - kevbin 10y ago
    From memory. I'm wrong. 20% went to Republicans, not Trump: https://www.opensecrets.org/states/geog.php?cycle=2016&state=CA https://www.opensecrets.org/states/geog.php?cycle=2016&state... Vote % is from the registrar of voters: http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/64404/184379/Web01/en/summary.html http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/64404... (from https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Pages/Registrar-of-Voters.aspx https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Pages/Registrar-of-Voters.a...)
    - DrScump 10y ago
      20% went to Republicans I think that source has issues. The percentages total up to 135% for Santa Clara County. I'm 112% sure that has an error.
      - uiri 10y ago
        For Santa Clara county Total donations: $59,683,708 Democrat donations: $28,362,650 (47% of Total) Republican donations: $7,613,361 (13% of Total) It is weird that the percentage column reports 75% and 20% instead of 47% and 13% respectively but that exactly accounts for the extra 35%.

devnonymous 10y ago

> No one in Silicon Valley voted for them or fundraised for them. cough Thiel cough

ixacto 10y ago

No one other than Peter thiel. The USA is much more purple than you might imagine. The solution to the H1B fiasco is to let individual companies straight up bid on the 100,000 visas, irreguardless of nationality or occupation and be done with it. Then we could put the money from this into a scholarship fund to pay for US citizens only.

kevbin 10y ago

> No one in Silicon Valley voted for them or fundraised for them. 20% of Santa Clara County voted for Trump. 20% of funds raised in Santa Clara County went to Trump. That's a small fraction by two-party system standards, but it's not no one.

DrScump 10y ago
20% of funds raised in Santa Clara County went to Trump Can you provide your source for this? (Not being snarky -- I have trouble finding that level of detail in terms of residence vs. company HQ)
- kevbin 10y ago
  From memory. I'm wrong. 20% went to Republicans, not Trump: https://www.opensecrets.org/states/geog.php?cycle=2016&state=CA https://www.opensecrets.org/states/geog.php?cycle=2016&state... Vote % is from the registrar of voters: http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/64404/184379/Web01/en/summary.html http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/64404... (from https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Pages/Registrar-of-Voters.aspx https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Pages/Registrar-of-Voters.a...)
  - DrScump 10y ago
    20% went to Republicans I think that source has issues. The percentages total up to 135% for Santa Clara County. I'm 112% sure that has an error.
    - uiri 10y ago
      For Santa Clara county Total donations: $59,683,708 Democrat donations: $28,362,650 (47% of Total) Republican donations: $7,613,361 (13% of Total) It is weird that the percentage column reports 75% and 20% instead of 47% and 13% respectively but that exactly accounts for the extra 35%.