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RWSGFY says

You misunderestimate the deviousness of the fucks: the Indian-infested faceless evil giant IT corporation where I work now posts these jobs on paper in cafeteria where you can't get w/o a badge. So the requirement to post it is fulfilled but the chance of outsiders applying to them is miniscule.

When I was a wee programmer starting out at Motorola in Chicagoland, I saw a jobs board in the office and asked to apply to one of the jobs. This was about 1994.

I was told the jobs were already assigned to certain people, but for legal reasons they had to post each job as if it were still open. Not sure what the legal reason was back then.

MolotovCocktail says

Because half of those who went to college majored in worthless degrees.

MolotovCocktail says

Two concepts are different h1b vs moving factory to another country. Lot so us here are in IT so only care for that, but since 1990 tons of factories moved to China n Mexico under Clinton. That's real wealth n capability. Usa looses wealth.

H1b is where production stays here in usa but people are imported to fill those positions. Biggest benefit most of those h1b work here, buy house ,here pay taxes here so almost all of wealth stays in usa.

During peak IT needs this made sense, but now with AI n not enough jobs do not need to bring more it related people here. Usa needs to improve education so it's cheaper n better. They stop h1b for IT.

KgK one says

Usa needs to improve education so it's cheaper n better.

True. That will be a tall order bringing back standards in both students and teachers and removing the entrenched "equity" and "woke."

Grok called it “rumors.” Others said “rare.”

But Walmart just fired a VP for kickbacks and terminated 1,200 contractors (CTOL Digital, 2025).

This doesn’t answer some questions about how the system works, it answers many. Shareholders were kept in the dark. Executives were on the take.

And what if this isn’t the exception at all... what if this is the model?

• What if the majority of H-1B contracting runs on kickbacks and insider deals?
• What if every “cost savings” pitch was just money shifted from shareholders to middlemen?
• What if the corruption is the system?

Here’s why this is just the beginning: USCIS has now launched a whistleblower program for H-1B fraud (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 2024). For the first time, insiders can report the schemes that everyone claimed “don’t exist.” VISA workers stuck in a corrupt system have recourse and this could dismantle the entire system..

If Walmart is the first domino to fall, how many more are lined up behind it?

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References
CTOL Digital. (2025, August 23). Walmart fires VP for kickbacks, terminates 1,200 contractors.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

https://x.com/ChiefNiftyswell/status/1959551662537818494

https://x.com/AnnaGorisch/status/1961188471139451284

I like most of Elon's positions, but not his support for H1b to deprive Americans of wages and boost profits for himself.

India just thumbed its nose at Donnie's demand to stop buying Soviet oil. Time to start deporting Indian H1Bs - it'll get that Modi fuck's attention pronto.

DemoralizerOfPanicans says

https://x.com/AnnaGorisch/status/1961188471139451284

I'd like to see that cunt prove my application is "unserious". If the education, qualifications and experience is there - GLWT.

Howard Lutnick recently said that he is reviewing H-1B program.

RWSGFY says

India just thumbed its nose at Donnie's demand to stop buying Soviet oil. Time to start deporting Indian H1Bs - it'll get that Modi fuck's attention pronto.

For decades, India gets blackmailed to buy oil by hostile governments including previous Indian communist regimes with lots of restrictions and higher prices!
Russia is a proven mutually trusted partner for long time. Trump had dinner with Porkistan military puppet in WH who gave a threat to India right after the dinner!
This can be a sign of a US low to higher level proxy war on India.

MolotovCocktail says

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/is-donald-trump-trying-punish-india-it-services-exports-after-taxing-trade-tariff-peter-navarro-h1b-new-visa-policy-2781264-2025-09-03

https://zeenews.india.com/world/struggling-for-basic-meals-if-things-don-t-improve-soon-indian-students-in-us-slammed-by-brutal-visa-rules-job-collapse-2955699.html

@SouthAsiaIndex
Just IN: President Trump considering a proposal to block US IT companies from outsourcing their work to Indian companies — a move that could wreck Indian IT sector & cost millions of jobs.
https://x.com/SouthAsiaIndex/status/1963927195715547432

Blue says

RWSGFY says

India just thumbed its nose at Donnie's demand to stop buying Soviet oil. Time to start deporting Indian H1Bs - it'll get that Modi fuck's attention pronto.

Russia is a proven mutually trusted partner for long time.

Choosing relashionship with loser Soviets over the US is a great way to shoot oneself in the foot. Both feet, probably.

But I can see how it is a more natural fit, taking into account the similarity in the sanitation situation: 1/3 of the Soviet population has no indoor plumbing.

RWSGFY says

Blue says

RWSGFY says

India just thumbed its nose at Donnie's demand to stop buying Soviet oil. Time to start deporting Indian H1Bs - it'll get that Modi fuck's attention pronto.

Russia is a proven mutually trusted partner for long time.

Choosing relashionship with loser Soviets over the US is a great way to shoot oneself in the foot. Both feet, probably.

But I can see how it is a more natural fit, taking into account the similarity in the sanitation situation: 1/3 of the Soviet population has no indoor plumbing.

So you still suggest buy oil at US suggested places that would push back to $150. US supply unlimited military supplies to Porkstan as part of the proxy war with India. The puppet literally said will blow up oil refineries in India right after dinner with Trump.
If you’re not aware, all left and jihadi political parties, media, major consumable business owned and run by US.

Blue says

So you still suggest buy oil at US suggested places that would push back to $150. US supply unlimited military supplies to Porkstan as part of the proxy war with India. The puppet literally said will blow up oil refineries in India right after dinner with Trump.

India is making out like crazy on outsourced IT. We need some reciprocity.

India is NOT entitled to millions of US-based IT jobs without something for the American Citizen (not multinational company) in return.

Also, the "investor visa" has to be restricted to NEW non-service businesses. IE not buying an existing hotel or gas station. Patel has to start a new business entirely, and not hotels, gas, convenience, clothing, restuarant, or other service

Buy F-18s? Buy US Oil? Something.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/

SUMMARY OF H-1B EXECUTIVE ORDER

- ENTRY BAN: No H-1B visa holder may enter the United States beginning Sunday September 21st, including current visa holders, unles they pay $100K to enter.

- VISA FEE: New H-1B and H-1B extensions must pay 100K to be processed and 100K per year every year thereafter to maintain them.

This will effectively end the H-1B program completely. No one, even the highest paid at 500K will be paying an extra 100K a year to the government.

It will destroy the health care, higher education, and technology sectors as we know them if this isn't struck down in court.

Musk should not have pissed off Trump, then.

Note the $100K fee per year may come with a regulation, not immediately, what is immediate is the travel ban on Sunday for 1 year subject to renewal unless the employer/immigrant pays $100K to enter.

Also the suspension of processing new H-1Bs by DHS.

That $100,000 new executive order by Trump seems like a Save American Citizen Tech Worker Jobs Act.

There is so much he's doing like this, securing the border, more manufacturing/tech investment in USA including the shipbuilding program, etc.

The corporate media refuses to report this or only report it to make it look like its "not what is America is about" as Biden would say.

AD says

That $100,000 new executive order by Trump seems like a Save American Citizen Tech Worker Jobs Act.

There is so much he's doing like this, securing the border, more manufacturing/tech investment in USA including the shipbuilding program, etc.

The corporate media refuses to report this or only report it to make it look like its "not what is America is about" as Biden would say.

If Musk had stayed aligned with Trump and Modhi didn't play "fuck around and find out" with his BRICS pals in Beijing & Moscow, this probably would not have happened either.

The $100K fee per year for every H1b (and every similar program) should be made into law.

• The proclamation DOES NOT apply to individuals already in the U.S. on H-1B status, or to student visa holders on OPT seeking to change their status to H-1B.

• It applies only to individuals outside the United States who are being sponsored for H-1B visas and seeking entry. This is specifically aimed at the Indian IT outsourcing companies whose business model is to sponsor large numbers of foreign workers abroad and bring them into the U.S. on H-1B visas. They may shift to sourcing workers who arrived on student visas or to heavily utilizing L-1 visas.

• H-1B workers could also be affected if they ever travel abroad and require visa stamping in order to return to the United States, even if they are otherwise in valid status.

The proclamation isn’t terrible, but it falls short of truly helping American workers and STEM graduates. Companies like Google and Microsoft won’t be affected, because they source their foreign workers through L-1 visas or from those who arrived on student visas. So when @howardlutnick said tech companies support it, now we know why.

If the Trump administration truly wants to help American tech workers and STEM graduates, it needs to end the OPT program, which was created entirely through regulation. Otherwise, it isn’t serious about fixing this issue.

https://x.com/USTechWorkers/status/1969209380395499985

Damn!

Hahaha. The spin is on!

Lot of shit flying around the internet. Here's what WH officially sez:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/

Not as glamorous as I thought but I think this would still apply for anyone up for renewal this year, unless I didn't read that correctly.

I sort of skimmed over the section c.B-a(j) barf.

Not so fast, offshore folks. Here’s what’s coming for offshore and OPT.

• A $100,000 annual fee on H-1B entries is now in effect by presidential proclamation for an initial 12 months. That changes the math on body-shopping and staffing arbitrage overnight.

• The HIRE Act has been introduced to add a 25% excise tax on “outsourcing payments” and to deny tax deductions for those payments. If it passes, offshore vendor work aimed at U.S. consumers gets hit twice.

• Courts and cities are laying groundwork against caste bias in hiring, making the referral networks that exclude Americans a legal liability. Seattle’s caste ban has survived court challenges, and similar actions are gaining traction.

• Litigation risk is rising. A Ninth Circuit panel revived a class action alleging preference for foreign workers over U.S. citizens, signaling more lawsuits and discovery into hiring pipelines.

Bottom line. The offshoring arbitrage that locked out American grads is getting expensive, risky, and visible. Expect more scrutiny on OPT-to-H-1B pipelines and on any job reqs written to exclude citizens. The era of quiet gatekeeping is ending.

https://x.com/ChiefNiftyswell/status/1969448696375816566

HIRE Act probably won't pass. But if it did I think it would be the first tariff levied on services instead of goods. Awesome.