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Many Techies' children lose legal status in US

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16 pointsBang2Bay9 comments

The HN headline here is misleading to the point of being wrong: It is implying that some legal process is changing (or has recently changed), which is not true. The article is about a group of companies lobbying for changes to citizenship laws.

I don't have an opinion on the topic one way or the other, but I get mighty riled up when I read breathtakingly inaccurate headlines.

It was blatantly editorialized. The original is "Tech companies urge U.S. to let the kids of visa holders stay past the age of 21"

There are (at least) two interpretations of the title, I think:

- [event] A policy change has taken place and the legal residency status of the children of tech workers in the U.S.A. has been altered

- [fact] Many children of tech workers lose their legal residency status in the U.S.A.

"Yeah they can go back to their shithole of a country that I wouldn't dare visit, that was ravaged by colonialism, if they don't like it here. How dare they try to build a better life for themselves and their family likes my ancestors did by immigrating to the US" /s

People should stop leaving their home countries to slave away for the American tech monopolies. Stay where you are, and use your skills and know-how to better your own country where you are appreciated.

You might want to check your privilege.

While your point about "Brain drain" is true I am not going to tell anyone that they need to toil their life away in a third world country to improve it. Choosing whether to do that or use their skills to escape to a better place is a very personal decision.

It is not the case that the U.S. is a paradise on earth, and that everything outside it is desolate wasteland with no opportunities.

When you say "toil their life away in a thirld world country", what are you picturing in your head exactly? Brown people in rags, chained to old 286's and programming away at the crack of a whip? Why do you think working as a software engineer in their home country means toiling their life away any more than in the U.S.?

While it's true that some H1B holderss are from thirld world countries, the majority are from developed countries with the best universities and educational institutes in the world, having received an education second to none and every opportunity to excell -- that is the very reason the U.S. wants them.

Give yourself a reality check.

H1B visas holders next gen are the modern day slaves. The Children are forced to choose tech as their future. They cannot for example work in low tech that is not eligible for a visa/H1B

Enslaved people are the modern day slaves.

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