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Terrible idea. Instead, US companies should be forced to hire a minimum percentage of US citizens. If they can't find enough talent locally, this will incentivise them to upskill the local population. Paying for traineeships, college degrees, funding technical colleges, and so on. If there is a skill shortage domestically, the response should not be "let's bring in more immigrants".

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As someone with no skin in the game - I really hope US does this so the rest of the world can learn from success/failure of this policy.

Completely agree. It’s strange to me that this idea, a country taking care of its own citizens first and foremost, is considered an extremist, “xenophobic” policy in this day and age.

Love the article as well —- “We need to drive down salaries..because..uh, China!”

Especially with interest rates rising, layoffs increasing, a potential recession inbound. The absolute gall of our collective leaders.

Yup, its ridiculous what goes on with immigration. Really common for all immigrant orgs in big tech to just prefer hiring their own.

Should California force SV tech companies to hire a minimum percentage of people from CA?

That would be CA's interest because those employees will definitely be paying state income tax.

Sorry, I meant this more in terms of state residency. Remote stuff obviously makes the question more complicated, but I meant currently existing residents of CA vs. people from other states who would move to California and also pay state income tax, similar to the US immigration question.

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