The U.S. Immigration Catch-All Thread [R]

https://bsky.app/profile/justinwolfers.bsky.social/post/3lzbixn6xnn2k
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Of course there is a pay-to-play corruption clause in everything.

 

In the tech field I've heard stories of H1B visas being abused where tech companies just use them for entry to mid level roles instead of just hiring Americans. Basically, claim they can't find talent then get cheaper talent from abroad. The other thing I've heard mentioning is the HIRE Act, being proposed by a Republican Senator. It supposedly puts a tax on companies offshoring, but given that it's the GOP, I'm skeptical it'll be of any benefit.

Thing is, a conversation about H1B visa abuse and offshoring has long been overdue, but the problem is neither party really wanted to touch it until it became a salient issue. And unfortunately, the one party saying they'll do something about is led by a guy who isn't going to exactly care about workers.

I will say I do think there needs to be serious chats about H1B visa abuse, offshoring (Accounting is one field that's been doing it and uh, let's just say security concerns) but the problem is that it's going to devolve into a mess. And no way is someone like Trump going to be capable of addressing it.

Anyway, the usual thing that will happen with offshoring is companies will start realizing why it's a dumb idea to begin with, they always do.

 

We've got ICE and friends beating people up in Chicago and now in Boston they're literally holding a hostage:

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/loca...QUtx_nYK8SNb3D_Dq4_aem_yz_H96UN6yyXTc0PEcdS5Q

Don't trust your lying eyes!

 

In the Before Times, I would respond to the accusation by the family with “interesting if true,” which is my shorthand for I doubt it, but maybe it happened, so keep me updated.

Nowadays, I honestly don’t know what level of skepticism is warranted.

Navigating the Trump Era is like walking on ice while you’re hammered. You can’t get your footing.

 

Walking on ICE gets you sent to Guantanamo these days.

 

Yikes.

Pun unintended. I was trying to think of a way to articulate walking during an earthquake that never seems to end but gave up and went with ice.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-officer-relieved-of-duties-video

Amazing, going by this administration's track record I was sure this guy was going to get a commendation or something.

 

Was expecting a promotion.

 

CNN followed a Honduran mother and her kids and what happened to the kids when she was deported.
Millions of our "Christians" are fine with this.

https://bsky.app/profile/tusk81.bsky.social/post/3lzlxyu7b4k25

 

Thought it worth sharing this Julia Ioffe video from her Instagram here.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPEyXt_EZ7X/

 

Key, gut punching line: Ioffe relays that someone told her, now I know why it was so easy to gas the Jews.

The soul of America is rotting away like the Nazi in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

The superintendent of schools in Des Moines has been arrested by ICE. This is a weird one.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/us/ian-roberts-des-moines-superintendent-arrested-ice

if it turns out he doesn’t have authorization to be here, you’ve gotta wonder how he got hired for a job like that.

 

If the Heralds reporting on this is accurate, this should be a major scandal and arguably the biggest new story in the country.



It should at least match the media reaction to the Kimmel cancellation.

 

I'm reminded of an account told by a Jewish holocaust survivor who lived in Holland during the invasion. On the day the news of the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands was spread, the 'nice' lady next door told this survivor's mother "now things won't be as easy for you." 'You' being the Jewish population in the Netherlands. This was a person who had so far always been courteous and even nice to them.

I have often wondered how many of those are in any society. Superficially friendly but will other you at the first opportunity.

 

Assistant Superintendent "Oh nooo. That's a darn tootin' shame. Guess they'll need a replacement"

 

Why? Are any of the 1200 missing people a celebrity? Or a right wing influencer?

 

And in the Now times, you have on ignore the people you said that to.

 

Speaking as someone who got to hear people's honest thoughts about gays before they knew I was gay, I can tell you there are a lot of people being superficially nice to people who harbor very deep prejudice against them.

 

If people didn't know I was Latino I was sometimes got to hear the awful things they say when they think it's safe to say them.

 

No, but we can hold out hope for the next 1200.

 

That's the thing about being a light-skinned Hispanic. I've heard this more than once from people people taking about w×tb@cks and $pics.

For a summer in college, I was a raft guide at the Ocoee river in east tennessee. One of the people I considered a good friend asked me if we were going to the grocery store in ni**er the part of town. It was a town of 500 and maybe 50-75 AAs

 

In the late 80's I attended a military academy (high school) in southern Virginia. Great experience. But to many of the other "local" kids there I was either a wet back or spic because my mother was Ecuadorian or a Nazi cause my dad was German.

And it was totally normal. So much, that the language didn't bother me anymore. It became accepted speech. I started doing it too. And it wasn't until I was a bit older that I realized my words matter.

 

Which one? Hargrove or Oak Hill?

 

Hargrave, Chatham VA. Class of 1990.