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"Why does the disk on the ceiling keep chirping?"

"You colonized a country, so take in Immigrants"
"You bombed a country, so take in Immigrants"
"You immigrated to our country with a whopping 0.1% of the total population at peak, so take in immigrants" (BRITAIN in India)
"You emmigrated out of your country, so the ones that didn't must take in Immigrants" (IRELAND)

Meanwhile the people of countries that want unlimited rights to immigrate to the West, want NO immigrants for themselves (India).

AmericanKulak says

"You colonized a country, so take in Immigrants"
"You bombed a country, so take in Immigrants"
"You immigrated to our country with a whopping 0.1% of the total population at peak, so take in immigrants" (BRITAIN in India)
"You emmigrated out of your country, so the ones that didn't must take in Immigrants" (IRELAND)

Meanwhile the people of countries that want unlimited rights to immigrate to the West, want NO immigrants for themselves (India).

Giving visa and not giving visa is every country's right, obviously. The decision to give H-1B visas was made. Studies were done, corporations were consulted and it must have been found that this would benefit the corporations at the cost of people. Instead of seeing this as a win-loose (win for corporations and loss for people) this was seen as a win (profits for corporations)-win (management of people through salary rationing and job losses). Now, here we are, still going back and forth about it with DOGE leaders erroneously coming out in support of H-1B.

Since Trump likes tariffs, just do that method here. Put forth a per head tax on H-1B that brinks the cost up to what an American worker would be paid. This would truly be a tariff that protects American jobs. If a particular H-1B was actually superior to local talent the sponsor would not mind the cost.

Iran before Jimmy Carter

HeadSet says

Since Trump likes tariffs, just do that method here. Put forth a per head tax on H-1B that brinks the cost up to what an American worker would be paid. This would truly be a tariff that protects American jobs. If a particular H-1B was actually superior to local talent the sponsor would not mind the cost.

Just ban H1Bs to those making $150k/year, to go up by $5k/year or CPI indefinitely, whichever is the higher.

"But I need to pay Werner Von Braun $50k a year or my Capitalist Human Rights are violated! What is this, the Soviet Union where I can't get unlimited Government Special Help to pay Engineers or Senior IT guys $50k/year?"