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Executive order on H-1B nonimmigrant visa administration
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- MiroslavPokorny 7d agoSometimes i wonder if the actions of ICE, are a reaction to try and stop immigration because of climate change. Naturally the administration will never say this, but the American west in particular is suffering a water crisis today and recent times seem to indicate today is the new normal. I think its reasonable to guess that the land cant support more people.
- krapp 7d agoNo. The actions of ICE are a reaction to how much Trump and his base hate brown people. This administration doesn't even believe climate change is real, Trump infamously called it a "Chinese hoax."
- ares623 7d agoIn the face of such incredulous hate, one must try to find some meaning to try and rationalize it.
- junofan 7d agoA big problem is these political spectrums are not really coherent moral philosophies yet fulfill an individual’s need for that kind of structure. I think anyone would find that “a person in America has a larger carbon footprint than a person almost anywhere else; therefore it’s an ecological imperative to expel whomever we can“ is odious. So we just don’t think about it.
- PeterHolzwarth 7d agoThe current administration doesn't believe in climate change / global warming, so no. It's just the typical "blame foreigners for your problems" thing that every authoritarian regime all over the world indulges in, and uses to justify nasty stuff. In the last 20 years, for example, it's also been how China justifies stealing stuff from other countries to further their local industries and technological growth (not that there aren't fantastic engineers and scientists in China already).
- georgemcbay 7d ago> The current administration doesn't believe in climate change / global warming Sure they do. None of the Greenland stuff (or most of the Canada stuff) makes sense unless they believe in these things. We assume that if they believed they would try to slow these things down, but they chose a different path, profiting off the accelerationism. The claims of not believing are just fodder for the FOX News/OANN watchers and what they say publicly is not what they believe. In much the same way that David Miscavige doesn't believe in Xenu, I'm pretty positive Donald Trump does believe in global warming, he just doesn't care... or rather only cares insomuch as it is a profit opportunity.
- citrin_ru 7d agoGreenland stuff doesn’t make sense even if they believe into the climate change. The US already has military bases there which are barely used. It’s just plain imperialism.
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- MiroslavPokorny 7d agoThey know the truth, their public statements are an act. I think its pretty obvious that all public people say one thing and believe or do another in private.
- gmerc 7d agoLol, the Golf courses, Almond plantages and Datacenters would beg to differ. It can't support more peasants maybe
- pfannkuchen 7d agoI’ve been puzzled why climate change messaging seems to ignore the emissions of other large countries like China and India. If USA reduces emissions but others don’t, well we all share the same atmosphere so… But similar to your angle, I’ve wondered if the climate change messaging is secretly targeted towards resource depletion. If USA switches off oil and oil runs out, who cares if others didn’t switch? But people have a hard time processing “going to run out in 50 years” as a crisis, so instead we get an apocalypse angle, I suppose because humans love the apocalypse (see: various religions).
- anonymous_user9 7d agoThe USA is far wealthier, uses more carbon per-person, and is responsible for more historical emissions than China or India. We have an obligation to reduce our gluttony before asking others to go without.
- hyperlinerapp 7d agoWhat have you done to reduce your gluttony?
- MiroslavPokorny 6d agoThe USA is not wealthy, some people and corporations are wealthy, most people are not. BIG difference. I like to think of holidays and work / life balance as a measure of wealth. Rich people can take time away from work because they can afford it. If you need to work lots of hours and barely can have a few days off then you arent wealthy. Let me ask again, if you need to work 2 - 3 jobs are you wealthy ? If you can only take a weeks worth of holidays in a good year are you wealthy ?
- dyauspitr 7d agoChina and India have very, very low per capita emissions. They are also the countries working the hardest and fastest at installing renewable energy.
- defrost 7d ago> I’ve been puzzled why climate change messaging seems to ignore the emissions of other large countries like China and India. It doesn't. The issue is likely more that you don't see or read widely enough. Even here on HN you'll see mention of China and India's emissions and use of coal on a regular basis. The US is a significant mention for two main reasons:- * of all the human lofted additional CO2 of the past century plus (that sourced from formerly deep underground) the US is the single largest sole country contributor (although China is catching up (but may or may not equal the US)), ... * the US is still a large per capita contributor today (ignoring tiny tiny outlier countries with small populations and near single export fossil fuel extraction countries) - it has an energy intensive economy. My personal beef isn't so much with the US but specifically with US based fossil fuel and resource companies of the 1970s onwards (eg: Koch brothers) who were well aware of the problem with increasing the insulation factor of the atmosphere and doubled down anyway - spending large on "think tanks" to promote confusion via media, over sell the appeal of large cars, destroy any and all grass roots campaigns for public transport, etc. (CO2MaXXing ?). The US has had influence across the planet post WWII, these campaigns just promoted a bad example for profit and deferred early and timely addressing of the issues.
- ares623 7d agoI wonder how the Big Tech co's who kissed the ring are feeling about this.
- verdverm 7d agoIt's amazing how much of a hypocrite he can be https://thehill.com/business/5603478-trump-organization-foreign-workers-2025/ https://thehill.com/business/5603478-trump-organization-fore... (Trump org requests record level foreign worker permits, 2025)
- esalman 7d agoAmericans had more than 10 years of exposure and still finds him "amazing".
- declan_roberts 7d agoThis is not necessarily a personal thing with Trump. If anything I think this might likely be more of a JD Vance thing.
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- Reubend 7d ago> ...the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take into account in any labor condition application... whether the employer sponsor directly or indirectly engaged in layoffs within the previous year or plans future layoffs... Unfortunately, as a 2nd order effect, I wonder if we'll see fewer layoffs and more outright firing to balance it out.
- declan_roberts 7d agoThis is long overdue. The fact that a large tech company lays 10,000 people off and then immediately turns around and petitions for thousands of H-1B employees is criminal.
- BatchJob 7d agoHi, Im not an H1B but as someone who contracted for decades, it was pretty easy to get hired as a contractor after companies laid off. The entire reason I stayed a contractor was because after being an employee and living under constant threat of layoffs, I decided I couldn't live like that anymore. It was my way of taking control. Contract labor is not booked as headcount so its not just the cost its also how its budgeted and looks to shareholders. Obviously our industry hasnt cared a whit about what its employees think since at least 2005 when they thought they were going to send all of it elsewhere.
- raincom 7d agoIndian outsourcing companies such as TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, etc., have a negative impact on contracting rates. These companies just underbid for the onsite contractor roles, so it is a race to bottom. Have you noticed all those emails from recruiters for $55 dollars on W2 in California for some contract role through TCS, Infosys, ..
- znpy 7d ago> The fact that a large tech company lays 10,000 people off and then immediately turns around and petitions for thousands of H-1B employees is criminal. the craziest thing is that this has to come from right-wight politicians. really gives you a sense of how much the left is f'd-up in 2026.
- hyperlinerapp 7d agoYou didn’t have to say “in 2026.” You could have stopped typing at “f’d-up.” Never in the history of the world has a political group been so bent on working for foreigners and against its own citizens.
- thomasjeff1 7d agoMust apply to existing H1-B holders who got it in the last 5 years or so.
- hyperlinerapp 7d agoThe job of a government is to protect its citizens. There is nothing else more important.
- Kim_Bruning 7d agoI wonder how many legal avenues there still are if you are just a normal middle class person wanting to work a stint in the US for the experience. (Probably not a great idea right this minute, but normally, I mean).
- hyperlinerapp 7d agoThere are tons of temporary agricultural and hospitality work available.
- Kim_Bruning 7d agoI'm not sure there's a legal visa for that though. It'd be interesting if there was.
- hyperlinerapp 7d agoThere is! H2A and H2B
- Kim_Bruning 6d agoMy fault for being too broad. I'm in tech of course. The most typical thing you'd see me across borders for at the moment might be the installation of industrial equipment, which you'd expect to be ok under B1, or VWP if under 90 days. Previously I'd been looking for options to just hang out in countries in the form of digital nomad/working holiday, which the USA also doesn't currently really cover too well. At any rate somehow each type has sharp edges to it which I happen to personally not fit into. My more recent understanding in the main is that actually most square pegs don't fit into round holes anyway when it comes to international travel, and there's quite a bit of official discretion at every level for people who are trying to do the right thing. In the USA atm, ICE is sometimes effectively ending up working-to-rule to fill their quota, so a lot of the discretion is negated. The most famous example is when ICE came in and rolled up a spin-up team (B1, VWP) who Hyundai and LG had brought in to stand up a multi-billion-dollar factory investment, for US workers to come work there.