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What the fuck? Let me see if I understand this. The president wanted to do some things on immigration. He decided against it. [insert long political debate her
by DanielBMarkham 12y ago
What the fuck?
Let me see if I understand this. The president wanted to do some things on immigration. He decided against it. [insert long political debate here]
But the things he was going to do had nothing to do with the H-1B Visa Ceiling, which can only be raised by an act of congress. So the reporter writes this piece about the administration's plans, which have nothing to do with H-1B, then kind sticks in that the president could do something about H-1B spouses at the end.
The headline literally has nothing to do with the article.
Now maybe somebody would like to make the case that the toxic atmosphere in Washington, combined with party X doing Y, yadda yadda - -- no increase in H-1B Visas. Which is where the lead kind of promised we were going. Great political wonkery piece. I'd probably read it. But the supporting text was all about administration stuff. If you want to write a piece about what congress is doing or not doing? Call me crazy, but I'm thinking you should have some stuff in there about congress.
I'm kind of at a loss here. Do the folks at the WSJ read the articles before creating headlines?
- Mangalor 12y agoIt read to me like a puff piece done to prop up the H1-B issue and keep it alive. A lot of New York based, WSJ-friendly companies use H1-B workers because they're cheap, so even though it's a political non-starter, tripling the number of H1-B's is still a priority for them.