They can’t make up the difference, they pay them less than $100k. This could work out if it makes hiring H1Bs more expensive than hiring citizens. After all, the reasoning behind H1Bs is that the skills are so specialized that companies can’t find citizens to fill the positions, so it’s only logical that such skill would cost a premium (it doesn’t because it’s being abused to exploit immigrants and suppress wages for everyone).
H1Bs are temporary, the workers are going back at some point. And with the job market as competitive as it is, do we really need to bring in more workers?
I’m sure this will be astonishingly poorly implemented, if it ever gets past the “say random shit to distract from other issues” phase. But the core of the idea is solid.
Which was my original point. Nurses especially suffer in states like Florida, where they can get away paying them $30/hr to take on 7 high acuity patients, because if they won’t work for that, the hospitals just bring in H1Bs.
They’ll pay the fee and underpay the H1-B visa holders even more to make up the difference.
They’re indentured servants. They can’t quit or they risk being deported by an increasingly violent ICE.
They can’t make up the difference, they pay them less than $100k. This could work out if it makes hiring H1Bs more expensive than hiring citizens. After all, the reasoning behind H1Bs is that the skills are so specialized that companies can’t find citizens to fill the positions, so it’s only logical that such skill would cost a premium (it doesn’t because it’s being abused to exploit immigrants and suppress wages for everyone).
H1Bs are temporary, the workers are going back at some point. And with the job market as competitive as it is, do we really need to bring in more workers?
I’m sure this will be astonishingly poorly implemented, if it ever gets past the “say random shit to distract from other issues” phase. But the core of the idea is solid.
Which was my original point. Nurses especially suffer in states like Florida, where they can get away paying them $30/hr to take on 7 high acuity patients, because if they won’t work for that, the hospitals just bring in H1Bs.