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thehappypmtoday at 3:46 AM4 repliesview on HN

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pjamtoday at 4:28 AM

Do you happen to remember where this stat came from? I have not heard about it and would be interested in learning more about it

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thrawa8387336today at 4:37 AM

No, this only makes it so that H1B and others are more at the mercy of their employers.

lunchbuckettoday at 4:26 AM

Maybe you should look into where statistics that are "going around" are sourced from. This seems to be something an anti-immigration lobby cooked to in 2014, which was an artifact of their analysis; they considered workers aged 16-65, and the effect disappeared if you considered workers of all ages.

Trump resurrected it in 2024 to claim that all job growth under Biden had gone to immigrants. It wasn't true then either.

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thisisittoday at 5:04 AM

This is going to be followed up with - DHS creates an “extraordinary” carve out for large tech companies and anyone who pays into Trump’s pockets.

And mid size companies hire foreign workers in foreign countries and accelerate offshoring.

People then talk about how government should restrict offshoring and punish companies while the Orange Man manufactures his phone and caps in China.

Surely a win for the people.