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It would be nice if the President signed an executive order that tariffs companies 1000% for off shoring tech work. These folks are stealing our jerbs.

• hedora 1y ago
  I wouldn’t look to the white house for solutions. Instead of discouraging offshoring, they’re threatening the physical safety of highly skilled foreigners. Those people have been the glue that holds the US economy together since, what, WWII? If the US is no longer an attractive destination, they’ll set up shop overseas. Fast forward ten years, and the jobs they create will definitely not be in the US. Concretely: Silicon Valley’s white collar workers are 66% first generation immigrants, and it’s the 4th largest economy on earth. (The US, including Silicon Valley, is number one). Just about all of my native born coworkers moved here for work.
  • butterlettuce 1y ago
    All that needs to change. The glue to the US economy needs to be Americans. We have the best universities in the world but we decide to invest in foreign students instead of our own for wage reasons.
    • aegypti 1y ago
      It just so obviously doesn’t, and even more obviously won’t. A pool of 9 billion > 340 million is a simple, hard reality that has trivially curb stomped any and all opposition since the dawning of the human race with the only variable being time-to-acceptance.
    • BobaFloutist 1y ago
      Foreign born immigrants are Americans. That's, like, foundational to how this country works. It's our competitive advantage.
• memcg 1y ago
  "As Trump pursues mass deportation, his businesses again seek foreign workers" https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/as-trump-pursues-mass-deportation-his-businesses-again-seek-foreign-workers/ https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/cre...