• MEDIA: Amid Big Tech Layoffs, Demand Still High for Foreign Workers Wit

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 11 10:58:42 2023
    Heritage's Simon Hankinson on whether Donald Trump regrets
    dispatching Jared nad Ivanka Kushner to Silicon Valley to sue
    for peace with the likes of Mark Zuckerberg: <URL:https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/03/why-demand-surges-for-h-1b-visas-as-americas-tech-tide-goes-out/>
    | Economist Milton Friedman's maxim that "nothing is so permanent as a
    | temporary government program" applies to work visas that are
    | supposed to be temporary.
    |
    | Every week brings a new headline about layoffs in the tech sector
    | amid falling share prices, rising inflation, and the end of cheap
    | money. Still, the decreasing demand for labor doesn't seem to be
    | reducing the demand for foreign tech workers.
    |
    | Among Big Tech companies, Amazon cut 18,000 employees, Google
    | 12,000, Microsoft 10,000, Meta (Facebook) 11,000, Salesforce 8,000,
    | Twitter 4,000 (half the company), IBM 3,900, and Yahoo 1,600 (or 20%
    | of staff).

    Does Susie Wiles worry that Ken Griffin and Lachlan Murdoch will
    allow Ron DeSantis to use their campaign stump to outflank Trump
    from the right on the National Question by calling Kevin McCarthy
    and Mitch McConnell to make immigration: safe, legal and rare?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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