Reminder to keep an eye out for bills like S386 this year
Jan 1, 2021
Here is a reminder to always be vigilant and keep an eye out on the activities of Immigration Voice and the new India-first and pro-outsourcing bills they will try to sneak in and buy out from our politicians.
#s386 #h1b #workvisa
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Enjoy your unfair privilege while it lasts
@facebook who apparently thinks companies have tiers even within FAANG — unless you own all these firms I don’t see how you’d be in a position to make such an accurate judgement cause these companies are huge. This is exactly what OP justifies about people feeling entitled to a GC just because they “feel” they’re better than everyone else.
Start by recognizing the current system is not a merit system and that the criteria to qualify for an employment greencard is overall pretty low.
I would love to have a merit system, like a point system, and in a merit system that country caps make less sense.
But we don't have a merit system, and in a non merit system country caps DO make sense. If we're not getting the best, then at least we should get diversity. Diversity DOES have value.
Removing the caps WITHOUT introducing a merit system means we do not get merit AND we do not get diversity.
I would support eliminating the caps as part of a merit system, but not without one, and I do not buy the argument that s386 is "a step", it's a step backwards without a merit system. It's a step forward only when combined with merit.
The real unfairness was AC21, that bill put a lot of people in limbo. Before that at least things were clear--you got in, or you didn't. No weird perpetual wait.
I think AC21 should be repealed AND we should have a merit system. Let people in, or send them home. Be clear about it and don't leave people in limbo.
Does that make me racist? I certainly don't think so.
They don't realize why people hate S386 supporters because they have no problem f*cking other people over and then calling it justice. They will f*ck the following:
1. ROW
2. Chinese people thru the Chinese Exclusion provision
3. Americans by subverting their will
They will f*ck all these people except for the outsourcers.
While those @FANG companies aren't competing with citizens (there are always unfilled jobs), when you look at the bottom quarter of the applicants in the greencard queue there's a lot there that are competing by being willing to be paid less than the citizen whose job they took.
This is why s386 never passes, there are real concerns it will harm Americans.
That can be fixed with as merit system that stack ranks the queue and only takes the best, but without that the bottom tier of applicants are a real harm to citizens.
Or just make it harder to qualify. Add a salary criteria that excludes the bottom tier.
And believe me, we aren't the biggest opposers. The latino community opposed it in Florida.
After the Chinese provision was added, the entire Asian American lobby went against it.
I just don't see a good strategy and the burden is on the bill's creators to work with others to find compromise.
The last part is where I’m unsure of, if there’s a better strategy to get to a UC with a reasonable bill. The Chinese thing probably will be removed and the bill will pass in next few years.
If you are concerned about IT workers, may be you should also be concerned about illegals and DACA because that is going to bring in way more immigrants and destroy the diversity to unimaginable extent. May be start a thread to stop DACA and any path to citizenship for illegals?
That is an objective fact.
If all you want to see is the purported racism between the lines, that is on you.
I am saying this because the first defense from S386 supporters is the allegation of racism. So forgive me since I am so desensitized to being called a racist since it is so overused at this point.
I am just saying this bill is wrong and don’t blame all Indians for this bill.
And when I brought the point about India, it is only after someone else from Twitter specifically talked about Indians. I didn’t refer to you.