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I think people would be more sympathetic to this if the tech job market wasn’t completely frozen as it is now. Hard to make the case for more immigration when so many American CS grads are struggling with unemployment. E.g. I think they should ask their CEOs to hire more people before asking for more immigration.

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This is kind of a silly argument as any sort of action on H1b visas has been perennially stalled, and ICE "enforcement" actions are specifically targeting the underprivileged or low skill labor.

Sure, just saying the optics of this is unlikely to garner much sympathy from the public. They should instead ask their bosses to cut down on H1B hiring then instead of ICE raids if ICE has nothing to do with tech.

My H1B teammates are awesome. I would rather keep them here in the States, thank you very much.

Perhaps our current administration could maybe reverse their policy course that has making us shed all of our international customers and making our domestic customers have to tighten their belts?

I would just like fewer masked maniacs abducting and murdering civilians in broad daylight

The letter does not appear to ask for "more immigration"

If you are calling for an indefinite pause on immigration enforcement, the optics of that are de-facto pro-immigration, e.g. who is going to enforce worker visas overstays if not ICE?

At tech companies? The company lawyers and HR, just like today. They are asking for a pause on immigration raids.

From what I’ve seen, tech companies are very lax about visa overstays. I’ve never heard of a tech company that actually enforces visa overstays or violations. (Why would they?)

Ah, so you admit that ICE’s public work of late has nothing to do with tech worker’s visas? They can just slide by while the more vulnerable are harassed?

INS (or its new parts) like before ICE was created in 2003? Otherwise the standard rules around hiring that apply across the country.

They are not calling for an indefinite pause on immigration enforcement.

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