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In reply to the discussion: Clinton Calms Silicon Valley’s Worries, Promises To Preserve High-Skill Visas [View all]bluedye33139
(1,474 posts)I'm not requiring anyone to believe anything. I'm stating that H1B visas are currently an important part of our immigration system, and I believe that people who immigrate on an H1B visa generally experience an improved life.
I get uncomfortable if the question become: Should good decent native-born Americans not become filled with rage at the thought of foreigners getting good jobs? It kind of asks me to determine whether or not people's xenophobia or immigrant-phobia is justified, and ... well, I am not the one to justify anyone's emotional sense that there are too many foreigners taking "our" jobs.
As for the Trump question, I might not be understanding you. Trump is getting this issue in the sense that he is not jumping onto the rightwing attack on H1B visas? I guess, in a sense, Trump's decision to break from Sessions and the rightwing cabal that wants to do away with H1B visas could persuade anti-Trump folks to agree with Jeff Sessions and the rightwing racist junta on this issue, but ... I don't think that's a legitimate analysis. Sessions is wrong. Trump is accidentally right about protecting H1B visa holders from the nativists. Should we do away with H1B highly skilled workers because Trump disagrees with the GOP on this?