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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 17-May-2026 01:51:07 JST Adrianna Tan

   I don’t care what political side you’re on, anyone who is weird about any immigrants including H-1B workers is not a good ally. You don’t get to only support the immigrants you like who might not ‘take your well paid job’.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 17-May-2026 01:55:28 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I’ve seen so many BS excuses about H-1B fraud from leftists that’s really not even barely veiled racism and xenophobia and nationalistic economic protectionism

     Those people make frothing at the mouth republicans seem more friendly. At least they’re not pretending to be your friend

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 17-May-2026 02:12:54 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Franceska Mann

     @FranceskaMann that describes almost every immigration program for almost every country. Including the ‘good ones’. Severe restrictions and fewer rights than citizens

     H-1B isn’t perfect but it’s also not the low wage mill described in the popular imagination

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     Franceska Mann (franceskamann@freeradical.zone)'s status on Sunday, 17-May-2026 02:12:55 JST Franceska Mann

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     @skinnylatte

     H1B fraud looks like employers underpaying workers & locking them into lower pay by not allowing them to accept a better position elsewhere.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 11:40:17 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Frankly I’m tired of many leftists and liberals pretending their anti-H1B rants are praxis instead of just anti-immigrant / Indian sentiment

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 11:46:10 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • DeanFarrell

     @DeanFarrell they think we should reduce international immigration because H1Bs empower billionaires to fuck over Americans.

     Which is true, but their solution also involves fucking over immigrants.

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     DeanFarrell (deanfarrell@mstdn.plus)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 11:46:11 JST DeanFarrell

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     @skinnylatte What's their problem with H1B visas?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 11:57:35 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I sometimes think you don’t get to have comments on US immigration unless you know the difference between an I-129 and I-140

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     Luke Kanies (lkanies@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 12:36:13 JST Luke Kanies

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     @skinnylatte hopefully my strong “immigration is good, should be way easier, and we should do way more of it” absolves me.

     It’s amazing how many clear correlations exist in America’s history that we just refuse to see, not least of which is how beneficial immigration is, especially when it’s a free for all

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     Imran Nazar (two9a@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 14:25:52 JST Imran Nazar

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     @skinnylatte This should honestly be the case in every country that has these policies. If a UK denizen starts spouting to the news about immigration, the first question should be "are you familiar with the difference between leave to remain and citizenship?"

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 21:31:47 JST Adrianna Tan

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     It doesn’t matter if you hate billionaires. If your fix for hating billionaire is to harm immigrants, I don’t think you have good politics.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 21:54:37 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Noah W.

     @noah it’s not a program. No country’s international visa / work program is anything but exploitation and similar restrictions.

     I’d like to see visa reform; not ‘tear it all down’. Doing the latter hurts millions of people. And does nothing for Americans. (The jobs are magically going to go to them. The oligarchs just gonna offshore).

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     Noah W. (noah@twit.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 21:54:38 JST Noah W.

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     @skinnylatte
     My issue with the H1-B is that it allows companies to have more control over the immigrant such that they are afraid to quit or ask for better benefits or working conditions over fear of replacement. It's bad for immigrants and bad for existing citizens. I would much rather see a system that allows for worker visas not to be tied to sponsorship. Generally, I'm pro mass immigration. Without it, I wouldn't have been born.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 07:07:18 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Chris L

     @jayalane fundamentally I’m not ok with people from the west restricting the movement of others, even in this genteel and nice version

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     Chris L (jayalane@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 07:07:20 JST Chris L

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     @skinnylatte the thing to do if you think your job is endangered is to travel to India and make friends with people there. Talk about a land of opportunity where hard work is rewarded! (And with great food!) make friends and help your friends negotiate for higher pay. Level the income differentials across the world, without war. Meet brilliant people from all over. 1/2

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 13:14:54 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • andrew773

     @andrew773 @crzwdjk but I’m calling out a specific leftist problem. Leftists aren’t good on immigration either. It’s not news.

     The immigration fixes proposed by leftists still harm immigrants.

     I’m not punching down, I’m calling out a specific gap I am seeing in American leftism: that economic protectionism (protect Americans) is a common theme that harms immigrants as well. Unions are great but they’ve also been awful to people of color.

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     crzwdjk ✅ (crzwdjk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 13:14:55 JST crzwdjk ✅

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     @andrew773 She was on an H-1B1 visa for a few years, supporting her wife because the H-4 you get with an H-1B1 (which is the special Singapore H-1B) doesn't allow employment. And because Singapore doesn't recognize same sex marriages. So for you it's about employers, for her it's about getting to live in the same country as her wife.

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     andrew773 (andrew773@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 13:14:55 JST andrew773

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     • crzwdjk ✅

     @crzwdjk I understand her situation and I'm glad it worked out for her. I have no problem with foreign workers. My point is it is not anti immigrant to be unhappy with employers in the United States because they have been very aggressive in disenfranchising their employees and US residents in general. I think her post triggers me because everyone loves punching down on the left. Sabotaging the left really hasn't worked well for us here in the US.

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     andrew773 (andrew773@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 13:14:56 JST andrew773

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     @skinnylatte Say what you will about liberals but that doesn't sound like a left position. The left is concerned with employers abusing the H1B program to drive wages down and create precarity for their employees in general. Our system has created a terrible situation for workers on behalf of oligarchs through years of corruption where many people are very close to desperation. Sorry if this is offensive but if you didn't know I hope you can consider this perspective.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 23:51:51 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • andrew773

     @andrew773 @crzwdjk well, look at what Bernie and others are now saying about H-1Bs.

     I don’t trust anyone who says those things.

     I don’t see a coherent left position on immigration reform.

     The European left is pretty fash on immigration (including and especially in the Nordics). I believe that white supremacy is more dominant than any political position. Just in different ways.

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     andrew773 (andrew773@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 23:51:52 JST andrew773

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     • crzwdjk ✅

     @skinnylatte @crzwdjk I know that UAW has endorsed economic protectionism but that is not because the members are leftists it is because they are economically self interested. Teachers unions tend to have a more diverse workforce including left perspectives. Peak union density was when the US was over 90% white and the unions that remain are mostly allowed to exist for legacy reasons, they are extremely limited and unfairly regulated. What you're saying like sounds like Democrats not leftists.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 00:18:16 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • andrew773

     @andrew773 @crzwdjk I’m saying that anti-immigrant sentiment comes from *all* sides and the left doesn’t get a special carve out. If you don’t believe that, you should probably ask more immigrants.

     No one feels that anyone is on our side. Anywhere.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 23:51:26 JST Adrianna Tan

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     More importantly I feel like most criticism of the H-1B program just.. doesn’t really understand how skilled visas work.

     Treating skilled legal immigrants like shit and giving them no rights is kind of the hallmark of almost all major immigration policies, not just the American one.

     Proposing that we get rid of it because you think it is exploitative is as bad as the ‘I am all for open borders but I have no real suggestion for how western governments can right now stop treating brown people like shit’ problem.