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Tesla has replaced some of its US employees who were let go as part of a big wave of layoffs earlier this year with foreign workers using H-1B visas, which CEO Elon Musk is now campaigning to increase.

Over the last week, Elon Musk has been promoting the increase of H-1B visas, which are used to bring foreign workers into the US for “specialty occupations.”

Qualified foreign workers need to be sponsored by a company to get the visa, which lasts three years, extendable to six years, after which the holder needs to reapply.

The visa holder must maintain employment at the visa sponsor to retain the work visa. The worker would have to leave the country if the employment ends for whatever reason. This has led to some criticism as it gives tremendous power to the employer and can lead to a modern version of indentured servitude.

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  • along_the_road@beehaw.org
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    18 days ago

    Bruh imagine being a person who voted for Trump because you were against immigrants than Trump’s Daddy takes away your job and gives it to an immigrant

  • LukeZaz@beehaw.org
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    17 days ago

    A friendly reminder to everybody here that the problem with this is not that “H-1B immigrants have the job instead,” but that “H-1B immigrants can be easily abused via deportation threats.”

    It’s an easy thing to forget when you’ve got headlines like this one that subtly phrase this scenario (intentionally or not) as though it’s the “immigrants work here now” part that’s the problem. Were it that H-1B workers were properly protected, and citizens were given sufficient social safety nets and welfare programs to thrive despite this, there’d be no issue whatsoever.

    • thelucky8@beehaw.orgOP
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      17 days ago

      Yeah, I didn’t want to edit the title, but I post again an important paragraph:

      The visa holder must maintain employment at the visa sponsor to retain the work visa. The worker would have to leave the country if the employment ends for whatever reason. This has led to some criticism as it gives tremendous power to the employer and can lead to a modern version of indentured servitude.

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    17 days ago

    So there were Americans who had the right skills and qualifications otherwise how would you be able to lay off anyone?