Can’t speak to IT but this will absolutely destroy the sciences. Americans are generally not interested in STEM and a large number of the scientific workforce in universities and industry are foreigners that have obtained their PhDs in the US and are staying for postdoctoral fellowships or industry positions.
I now cannot edit posts (keep getting a 403 returned), but to be clear - I believe the same thing should happen for science as I would like in IT, perhaps even more so - immigration should be relaxed outside the parameters of H-1B, and it should be something fast-tracked as much as possible for this kind of work especially. Last thing we need to do is have even more of a brain-drain.
For IT, it’d be about calling the bluff of many companies saying they cannot find talent here for people to write code - for science, I’m sure it’s actually true that you really want to scour the globe for talent. But it’d also be ideal that they have as much autonomy as anyone else here in the workforce, and not tied down by one entity.
And before anyone says “but theyre just taking skill out of the country” no they usually work inside the US. As it turns out being taught by and alongside Americans makes you most ready for an american workplace.
Yeah no joke. STEM research is already ~50% (usually more) foreign; I don’t have the numbers but I would wager that there are more academic H1Bs than industry ones (since academic has no cap) and they are the main victims of this policy
Even before Trump I’ve heard anecdotes of ppl fighting tooth and nails with their uni/institute for H1B sponsorship because it would cost the employers a few thousand extra per year. This ends up with a lot of international postdocs on the highly temporary and sometimes predatory J1/OPT statuses… Slapping a $100k fee on H1B would just kill the field lol. Not that this administration cares about STEM to begin with
Speaking of which… I was the one warning my colleagues that Trump would come for the H1Bs and no one listened. Guess I was right after all…
Can’t speak to IT but this will absolutely destroy the sciences. Americans are generally not interested in STEM and a large number of the scientific workforce in universities and industry are foreigners that have obtained their PhDs in the US and are staying for postdoctoral fellowships or industry positions.
I now cannot edit posts (keep getting a 403 returned), but to be clear - I believe the same thing should happen for science as I would like in IT, perhaps even more so - immigration should be relaxed outside the parameters of H-1B, and it should be something fast-tracked as much as possible for this kind of work especially. Last thing we need to do is have even more of a brain-drain.
For IT, it’d be about calling the bluff of many companies saying they cannot find talent here for people to write code - for science, I’m sure it’s actually true that you really want to scour the globe for talent. But it’d also be ideal that they have as much autonomy as anyone else here in the workforce, and not tied down by one entity.
And before anyone says “but theyre just taking skill out of the country” no they usually work inside the US. As it turns out being taught by and alongside Americans makes you most ready for an american workplace.
Yeah no joke. STEM research is already ~50% (usually more) foreign; I don’t have the numbers but I would wager that there are more academic H1Bs than industry ones (since academic has no cap) and they are the main victims of this policy
Even before Trump I’ve heard anecdotes of ppl fighting tooth and nails with their uni/institute for H1B sponsorship because it would cost the employers a few thousand extra per year. This ends up with a lot of international postdocs on the highly temporary and sometimes predatory J1/OPT statuses… Slapping a $100k fee on H1B would just kill the field lol. Not that this administration cares about STEM to begin with
Speaking of which… I was the one warning my colleagues that Trump would come for the H1Bs and no one listened. Guess I was right after all…
You have any numbers? The way the H-1B system is exploited in IT is a shit show.
True, US got Melania, right?
She got an EB-1 visa.