H1B crackdown has started

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10:55a, 10/8/26
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I hope it really picks up steam. They need to come to Texas next. This can not get swept under the rug.



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TAMU1990
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10:57a, 10/8/26
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J1 visas too. They did not name A&M.


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10:59a, 10/8/26
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Edit: too slow. Posted above.
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11:01a, 10/8/26
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Awesome news! More please!
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11:02a, 10/8/26
J1 student visas have been a very large driving force behind the exponential rise in the cost of attending college. Along with 100% federally backed student loans, J1 visas have allowed for vast numbers of foreign students to attend college in the US. There's a dichotomy- these students might pay increased tuition which is backed by their home nation's government as they are expected to graduate and return to work for that government OR they're heavily subsidized by the universities here in the US and those costs borne by the average student.
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11:03a, 10/8/26
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I've been waiting on this, but they have to follow through.
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11:08a, 10/8/26
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F* Cognizant. I listened to their CEO straight up lie on CNBC about how they were not doing H1Bs and were actually doing the opposite by hiring US college graduate citizens while everyone was doing the opposite. This conversation was in context of how they were approaching AI.
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11:12a, 10/8/26
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This is great.

But what's going to stop Microsoft from just moving these jobs overseas?
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In reply to deddog • 11:13a, 10/8/26
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deddog said:
This is great.

But what's going to stop Microsoft from just moving these jobs overseas?

Good question. Very good question.
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11:15a, 10/8/26
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Good. You want to benefit off cheap Indian labor then move your company to India.

But if you want to exist in the United States then you need to hire and pay for American labor.

Abusing a government program to exploit 3rd world labor at the expense of US citizens absolutely must end
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In reply to torrid • 11:18a, 10/8/26
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torrid said:
deddog said:
This is great.

But what's going to stop Microsoft from just moving these jobs overseas?

Good question. Very good question.


Nothing is stopping them

But at the same time they aren't mass importing low wage exploited labor and their entire extended family into the US to lower their business costs while driving up our costs for housing food, HC etc to hollow out the middle class.
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In reply to Maroon Dawn • 11:20a, 10/8/26
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Maroon Dawn said:
Good. You want to benefit off cheap Indian labor then move your company to India.

But if you want to exist in the United States then you need to hire and pay for American labor.

Abusing a government program to exploit 3rd world labor at the expense of US citizens absolutely must end

Microsoft has a ton of offices in India and overseas.

This might work in the short term (and is a great first step) but we need US jobs to stay here. We need to make it compelling for jobs to be created in the US. Right now, government is strangling job creation at the federal and state levels.
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In reply to TAMU1990 • 11:23a, 10/8/26
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I've been waiting on this, but they have to follow through.

They did freeze their PERM programs, they can no longer sponsor employees for green cards.
Great start.

I think the government will back down a little, and instead allow it for a very high fee. Lets see if the employee is really worth it
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In reply to YouBet • 11:24a, 10/8/26
YouBet said:
F* Cognizant. I listened to their CEO straight up lie on CNBC about how they were not doing H1Bs and were actually doing the opposite by hiring US college graduate citizens while everyone was doing the opposite. This conversation was in context of how they were approaching AI.



Cognizant is US headquartered but its pretty much an Indian company, even in the US. They do software systems integration projects for our customers all the time and its nothing but Indians, US included.
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11:26a, 10/8/26
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Why has it taken this long? If a democrat gets elected in '28 they'll turn the spigot back on.
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In reply to AgNav93 • 11:31a, 10/8/26
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Why has it taken this long? If a democrat gets elected in '28 they'll turn the spigot back on. we are screwed!

H1Bs, open borders, USAID cranks back up, mass federal government hiring, DEI to the max, crime, genital mutilation for minors, etc...


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In reply to deddog • 11:31a, 10/8/26
deddog said:
This is great.

But what's going to stop Microsoft from just moving these jobs overseas?

We tariff their foreign labor product?
Isnt it like Canada being used as a conduit for cheap Chinese or Korean steel?
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In reply to deddog • 11:32a, 10/8/26
deddog said:
This is great.

But what's going to stop Microsoft from just moving these jobs overseas?

100% of the jobs won't stay in the US, but they all won't got overseas, either. Even with all the advances in remote work, there are still downsides to it, and people will be required to still be local. There's still a huge language and cultural barrier as well. There's a reason all of these IT consulting companies still have people in the US close to the clients.
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In reply to deddog • 11:33a, 10/8/26
deddog said:
This is great.

But what's going to stop Microsoft from just moving these jobs overseas?


Nothing.

Good to see, but smells of "okay, the midterms don't look good for us, so what could we have done last year that if we do now will make people want to go out and vote for our people?"
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In reply to Maroon Dawn • 11:35a, 10/8/26
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Maroon Dawn said:
Good. You want to benefit off cheap Indian labor then move your company to India.

But if you want to exist in the United States then you need to hire and pay for American labor.

Abusing a government program to exploit 3rd world labor at the expense of US citizens absolutely must end


Southwest Airlines, who barely even flies internationally, outsourced their IT department to India recently. Went around H1B by simply opening a "subsidiary" in India where a lot of their IT work is done.

And guess who spearheaded that? The Indian guy they added to the board who was President of the BoD.

Just a complete betrayal of America, IMO.
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11:40a, 10/8/26
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Maybe microwaves will start smelling better?
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In reply to torrid • 11:42a, 10/8/26
torrid said:
deddog said:
This is great.

But what's going to stop Microsoft from just moving these jobs overseas?

Good question. Very good question.


Well why dont they do that now? Why risk the marketing and potential legal penalties by bringing them stateside?

There had to be a reason already why they didn't want to do that. These people are greedy, not dumb.
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11:44a, 10/8/26
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Dam, another crazy move by our 'liberal' President. This is getting out of hand.
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In reply to Red Fishing Ag93 • 11:45a, 10/8/26
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Dam, another crazy move by our 'liberal' President. This is getting out of hand.

What is crazy? Please be specific. Thanks in advance!
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11:59a, 10/8/26
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For the record, I don't care if this breaks half of the tech companies in America. I couldn't care less about those companies, or their shareholders. They need to be put up against a wall until this purge is complete.
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12:02p, 10/8/26
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Radical idea: America is for Americans.
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12:03p, 10/8/26
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Microsoft and Adobe must not have made adequate campaign contributions.
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12:57p, 10/8/26
This is MOOOST pleasing!!!! Thank you, do not come again.
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12:59p, 10/8/26
Convenient election-year headlines to fool people into thinking there's an H-1B crackdown. This only suspends PERM, a program companies use to sponsor foreign workers for green cards.

These companies can still hire and renew H-1B workers, many of whom can stay for decades through extensions. So it doesn't directly restrict H-1B hiring. Just more theater than actual reform.
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In reply to AustinAg2K • 1:00p, 10/8/26
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AustinAg2K said:
deddog said:
This is great.

But what's going to stop Microsoft from just moving these jobs overseas?

100% of the jobs won't stay in the US, but they all won't got overseas, either. Even with all the advances in remote work, there are still downsides to it, and people will be required to still be local. There's still a huge language and cultural barrier as well. There's a reason all of these IT consulting companies still have people in the US close to the clients.


Maybe there should be a tariff on MS Teams calls in America that connect to foreign servers.
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In reply to Maroon Elephant • 1:00p, 10/8/26
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For the record, I don't care if this breaks half of the tech companies in America. I couldn't care less about those companies, or their shareholders. They need to be put up against a wall until this purge is complete.

This brought a tear to my eye. Man, it's beautiful.
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In reply to BharatAg • 1:03p, 10/8/26
BharatAg said:
Convenient election-year headlines to fool people into thinking there's an H-1B crackdown. This only suspends PERM, a program companies use to sponsor foreign workers for green cards.

These companies can still hire and renew H-1B workers, many of whom can stay for decades through extensions. So it doesn't directly restrict H-1B hiring. Just more theater than actual reform.

Based on your username. I am assuming you are an Indian. So should we put Americans first or do you think Indians should be given jobs where Americans are completely cut out of the loop by tech companies and Indian hiring agencies ? obviously you know where my loyalties lie.
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In reply to TAMU1990 • 1:14p, 10/8/26
TAMU1990 said:
J1 visas too. They did not name A&M.




Stanford, Harvard, MIT..

bwhahahahhaha

Roast in hell... you didn't admit my kid a few years ago, now pay the price!
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In reply to TAMU1990 • 1:17p, 10/8/26
TAMU1990 said:


I've been waiting on this, but they have to follow through.



My Arrest Wish List:

  • Satya Nadella (Microsoft)
  • Sundar Pichai (Google)
  • Andy Jassy (Amazon)
  • John Ternus (Apple)
  • Mark Zuckerberg (Meta)
  • Elon Musk (Tesla)
  • Jensen Huang (NVIDIA)
LET'S GO!
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