H1b -- 100k year fee. Good or bad for DACA?

I say very good for domestic tech workers who are DACA!

Immigrants against other immigrants. Playing right into the Republican playbook.

Unrelated to Dreamers, essential undocumented workers and our families, or the long-term undocumented.

I'm OK with this. They are using this visa to drive down wages and keep Americans including DACA from getting hired. Not only that the skills they learn here are then used to train up and build offshoring capacity with those global capabilities centers.

That said, there are a lot of talented individuals that make use of the h1b that will be hit hard. Ultimately those who are worth hiring will be able to easily clear the 100k usd bar.

And of course they say that we, immigrants, drive down wages but ultimately if a job can be done from overseas it probably will be eventually because labor costs are the main spend. They look at it from a cost perspective, not an investment in local talent perspective. They think the number of jobs is fixed, but actually the problem is jobs pay too little and there are job hogs doing two or even three jobs. It's a wage crisis, not an immigration crisis.

Crazy pants on head retarded shit like this happens when you let lawyers and business majors run your government and businesses.

What they should do next is let DACA pay for longer work permits. So people can get the 10 year work permits. not really sure why they let the program remain stuck at 2 years when 4+ would've been much better.

Good. H1b is being abused and it's lowering American wages.

The harsh truth is that if you can't compete and outshine someone that has zero skills and no English language you are very very vulnerable to automation and eventually either a Chinese made robot or those Optimus robots are going to make your job obsolete.

It's especially important to obtain skills to make you a viable candidate in today's world. Hard mule-like low wage work is over, only technical and specialized skills will survive automation and even then maybe not if tech bros get their way. Somehow you have to hold on until universal basic income, or maybe until the AIs decide humans are obsolete. Oh yeah. Roko's basilisk

i am going to say it's bad news because if they can eat the livers of H1B workers and get away with it- What's stopping them from coming after us?!

H1Bs, btw, are all 100% LEGAL in this country UNLIKE daca recipients.

Lots of Dacas hold jobs+salaries that US citizens and green card holders want and would die for. Heck, some Dacas are clocking 6 figures right\ now. Jealousy is a bitch. Same arguments vs H1Bs can be used against us.

You are right, they will come after us after they are done with the H1bs. I just can't stand working with some of them.

Before Trump left office in his first term, he raised the price of DACA and that will most likely happen again. Previously, it was raised from$ 495 to $765 and is currently around S555 - S605. Who knows what the new fee is going to be.

I think their plan was to reduce it to one year and raise the cost on some work permits.