• MEDIA: Tech Layoffs Likely Pose No Deterrent to Record H-1B Visa Demand

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 7 11:41:24 2023
    Michael Bloomberg's guest blogger, Andrew Kreighbaum, on whether
    Donald Trump regrets dispatching Jared and Ivanka Kushner to Silcon
    Valley to sue for peace with the likes of Mark Zuckerberg: <URL:https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/tech-layoffs-likely-pose-no-deterrent-to-record-h-1b-visa-demand>
    | Continued growth in H-1B registrations despite mass layoffs
    | undermines the idea that the demand is based on labor shortages,
    | said Ron Hira, an associate professor of political science at Howard
    | University.
    |
    | "Taking a step back and looking at this from a high level view,
    | you'd say this doesn't compute," he said. "It doesn't have logic."
    |
    | While big tech layoffs could give some midsize companies a chance to
    | hire laid-off workers, most H-1B registrations by contrast are
    | submitted on behalf of early career workers employed through
    | Optional Practical Training, which allows student visa holders to
    | work up to three years in science, technology, engineering, and math
    | fields after graduating from a US college.

    Does Susie Wiles fear that Ken Griffin and Lachlan Murdoch will allow
    Ron DeSantis to invite John Miano onto their campaign stage to
    outflank Trump from the right with legacy American proles to discuss
    the extra-legal OPT and H-4EAD programs and Trump's slow-walking of
    their recission?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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    "It's true DeSantis learned from Trump. But Trump's boosters are
    lying to people when they insist it doesn't work both ways. For
    example, just *days* after DeSantis said he wants to ban China from
    buying Florida land, Trump said the same. It's all very dumb and
    dishonest. https://t.co/fCRCLzVjsA" - Pedro Gonzalez <URL:https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1630577880076804097>

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