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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 07:17:51 JST Adrianna Tan

   If you’ve ever applied for a #H1B visa, you’ll know that there is a publicly searchable database with the Dept of Labor that, based on your occupation and location, determines the salary floor at which your visa will be approved.

   That also means, unlike people here who are spreading lies about H1B salaries, and wage slavery, you’ll be simply befuddled at the supposed terrible wages you’re receiving.

   There are other exploitation problems here, but people who keep pushing this narrative aren’t helping anyone.

   #Immigration

   • mekka okereke :verified: repeated this.
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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 07:29:58 JST Adrianna Tan

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     The people who go from learning this to, well then, high paid jobs should only go to Americans! Are showing their whole ass.

     Xenophobia is xenophobia, and Americans first is nativism, no matter what else you believe in politically

     mekka okereke :verified: and Bill repeated this.
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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 07:32:50 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Don’t mistake your xenophobia for your concern for American labor rights. If you were truly into labor, you would work for the rights of all workers, including people who are not American or not yet American. Including H1Bs, and undocumented people alike

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     Callisto (callisto@disabled.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 08:51:53 JST Callisto

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     @skinnylatte May I ask an honest question though - since I've heard "slave labor" about H1B from a friend who does extensive but non-immigration focused work in Haiti, and is guardian of two teenage refugees, daughters of a Haitian colleague: the tag on that graphic says H2B. Are the pay scales the same?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 08:51:53 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Callisto

     @callisto H2B is actually a different program. No software workers will actually get a H2B. The numbers are right but the H2B tag is not. I’ll look for another screenshot.

     https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/62g-h1b-required-wage

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     Chip Warden (lgw4@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 09:59:40 JST Chip Warden

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     @skinnylatte It may not be "wage slavery", but it is definitely indentured servitude. NO ONE SHOULD BE BEHOLDEN TO THEIR EMPLOYER TO REMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES LEGALLY. No one should have to live that way.

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     Callisto (callisto@disabled.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 10:02:51 JST Callisto

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     @skinnylatte Thanks!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 10:02:51 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Callisto

     @callisto one thing to note is that refugees typically aren’t getting H1Bs. In almost all H1B jobs you have to apply for them from abroad and have a bachelors degree. There is also then only a 1 in 4 chance of getting it approved, through a mandatory lottery.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 13:11:45 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Chip Warden

     @lgw4 I agree. Visas for every country in the world work almost exactly the same way, though. I’m all for opening borders, but any anti-H1B talk that’s about ‘making it better to immigrants’ without concrete steps on ‘how’, doesn’t feel positive or real to me, especially when so many people saying this are also pro restricting H1B and harming immigrants as well.