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H1B is the work visum that allows him to stay in the USA?
What "issue" did he promise to go to war for, last christmas?
I'm missing context, but I'm not the least bit surprised that all his tweets are grandiose exaggerations.
edit: thanks for explaining it to me!
No he originally came to the US on an educational visa, and then violated it by overstaying and working on starting his business. H1B is what allows him and the other billionaires to import indentured servants who can't leave their companies.
Sounds like Dubai minus the passport confiscation.
H1B is the visa that allows rich company owners like him to exploit cheap high tech talent. He can hire an aerospace engineer from India to work at SpaceX in Texas with it. He can also pay that engineer a percentage of what an American aerospace engineer would get. Furthermore he can force that Indian engineer to work a huge amount of hours. If the engineer tries to stand up for himself, threatens to quit, etc. then SpaceX can just fire him and send him back to India. If he quits SpaceX then he has to almost immediately find a new company to sponsor his H1B visa, or it’s also back to India for him. And good luck job hunting without SpaceX catching wind of it when you’re working 10 hour days 6 days a week for them.
That's fucked up.
Well it wasn’t meant to be used that way, but my understanding is that the wording of the visa program is vague enough that it can be exploited this way. And the rich assholes who exploit it this way make sure the politicians get nice big donations to keep it from being changed.
I'm pretty sure US's immigration legislation is meant to be used exploitatively, getting the good cheap work without giving much in return. If not explicitely then through loopholes, but very much with purpose. And not only since Trump.
I mean one should not expect any less from the Mecca of capitalism. Laws will be written to serve capital.
It let him pseudo slave phds and other high technical professionals from around the world.
No, his citizenship allows him to stay.
H1Bs are for skilled labor immigrants. I work with a few and it's a complicated mess that makes it difficult to switch jobs (we just hired one and it took weeks to get the authorization for the new employee to work, despite already having a visa). It also makes it difficult for me to promote people, since we need to open a position for the new role and prove we can't easily hire for it.
He's a citizen now
Illegally. Cause he liiiiiiiiiieeed