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 @ISIDEWITHNewsImmigrationDaily DiscussionRepublicansMAGABorder SecuritySkilled ImmigrantsGovernmentPoll•••2yrs ago

Republican Support for H1B1 Visas PLUMMETS Since 2019

Should the government increase or decrease H-1B1 visas?

Republicans

38.5% Increase

52.5 % Decrease

Democrats

83.7% Increase

10.3% Decrease

Libertarians

62% Increase

29% Decrease

A majority of Republicans briefly supported increasing H1B1 Visas from September 2019 to January 2020. This was the only period since the poll launched in December 2015 where they backed an increase.

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15 Replies

 @B1llOfRightsElandLibertarianfrom California  commented…2yrs2Y

There is a massive misunderstanding about H-1B visas and the type of people coming in on these visas.

These are not elite top 1% type engineers and programmers. They are mostly very mediocre and nothing special.

These people are brought in for cheap labor, not elite talent. There are exceptions, sure. Very few.

 @HushedKingdomConstitutionfrom Maine  disagreed…2yrs2Y

According to Grok Each year, the United States issues a maximum of 85,000 H-1B visas. This includes 65,000 under the regular cap and an additional 20,000 for individuals who have earned a master's degree or higher from a U.S. institution. That is a lot of people.

 @IdealisticVultureDemocrat from Georgia  disagreed…2yrs2Y

This is false...in order to get an H-1, you must try to recruit eligible workers in the US first, then have a prevailing wage study done (preventing low wage scams)...come on guys.

 @GleefulR3f0rmRepublican from Massachusetts  disagreed…2yrs2Y

Visa holders get exploited by corporations because they can't change jobs and have to leave the country if they get laid off. Harder to get raises because of lack of competition. It doesn't help foreign workers or domestic workers. Just corporations.

 @C1vilRightsBoarsRepublican from Alabama  commented…2yrs2Y

Tech bros not gonna win this one within MAGA.

Their best bet is getting their status quo position to prevail in some quiet administrative compromise and hoping no one notices, rather than drawing attention to their losing position on X.

 @LlamaDaveGreenfrom Illinois  disagreed…2yrs2Y

There’s no actual way of people on my and their side of this debate winning. Not happening under Trump, Democrats aren’t supportive of this position either. At some point years down the line, maybe public sentiment will change.

 @C1vilRightsBoarsRepublican from Alabama  disagreed…2yrs2Y

Thanks to Joe Biden, immigration restriction is a majoritarian position in the country in a way it wasn’t in 2016. Trump has a mandate to do whatever he wants on it. This is a weird hill to die on, particularly in light of the election we just had.

 @5JLL85RDemocratfrom Kansas  disagreed…2yrs2Y

wrong. the coalition of minority/immigrant voters that went right has fractured bc the identitarian right didn’t say any of this stuff prior to election- basically the base just backstabbed the newer part of the base

 @GrassrootsArtDemocrat from Texas  disagreed…2yrs2Y

They’re dying on this hill because the actual problem to hardcore MAGA isn’t border crossings. They just don’t like immigrants in general, so they want to leverage their majoritarian position on border crossings into a total purge.

 @7WP4QZNCentre-Right from Iowa  commented…2yrs2Y

For something to be an intra-coalitional rift, the debate has to be happening at the voter level, with millions of people in the coalition taking one side and millions of people the other.

This H1B kerfuffle doesn’t rise to that level.

 @LibertyBellPloverWorking Family from Texas  agreed…2yrs2Y

MAGA did everything they could to squelch these debates during the election, "We can hash things out after we win". So a lot of their coalition kept their mouths shut.

Now that it's time to pay the piper, a lot of those groups want payback with interest for their silence

 @99MY8S5Nationalsim from Virginia  commented…2yrs2Y

If you hear someone say “Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” immediately disregard their opinion.

What we need, and what Trump campaigned on, is the largest deportation operation in American history.

They will call you racist and a bigot. Ignore the noise. Stay true to our goal.

 @8H8R8XWRight-Wing Populism from Ohio  commented…2yrs2Y

That just means allow everyone in, instant legal status and voting democrat in 1 year

 @PluckyLemurGreen from Washington D.C.  commented…2yrs2Y

I hope the MAGA right notices Vivek Ramaswamy is hostile to working people. He wants to prevent Trump from capping credit card rates and junk fees which to help the 70% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck while blaming American culture for their circumstances.

 @72J524MSocialist from Massachusetts  agreed…2yrs2Y

His podcast interview with Ezra Klein was shocking for its shallowness of thought beyond sophomore year Ayn Randisms

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