Unbelievable how naked the anti-immigrant sentiment from you and numerous other commenters. I'm honestly shocked.
also a lot veiled xenophobia re: developers from poorer countries which is absolutely disgusting (and it's something that hits me particularly).
Moreover, an individual can collaborate constructively with immigrant coworkers on a personal level, while also advocating politically for a more restrictive immigration system.
There is nothing unethical about that. The role of government is to protect the natural rights and interests of its own constituents.
Educated immigrants grow the US economy and increate the total employment of the country in the long run. That's who is being kept out here.
This isn't an action that's being taken to help fix issues with the H1B visa system. It's simply to stop immigration to the US.
I'm saying we shouldn't hurl epithets at people for commenting on political concerns that affect them, just because we don't like their point of view. There's a difference between "anti-immigrant" and "anti-H1B."
Look up the definition of "bigotry." People on both sides of the issue should be tolerant of reasonable commentary from the other side.
EDIT: I made a mistake, you made the comment two posts above, not in the prior post. That's why I didn't see it when I came to reply; I looked at the immediate parent rather than going back a ways. But it's right there two posts above, you're decrying "anti-immigrant" commenters. When you set up the debate in that way, there's no consideration of the argument on the other side. You just write it off as being somehow hateful or motivated by prejudice. I don't dispute that some people are prejudiced, but that isn't the only basis upon which H1B policy can be judged. There are tens of millions of unemployed people in the USA right now. Suspension of H1B prioritizes those people over foreign nationals. It's not necessarily a question of anti-immigrant sentiment.
Many more comments are non sequiturs about the various shortcomings of the H1B program which has nothing to do with why it was suspended. My comment doesn't label every participant in this thread as anti-immigrant.
You can't ignore the overall ramifications of the policy just because you believe that the policymaker has a particular nefarious motivation.
And you shouldn't box people out of the debate by accusing them of hatred just because they don't condemn a policy that you see as being hatefully motivated.