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i understand playing safe with this administration, but why?

h1b requires that one company signed as responsible sponsor on form i129. they are the ones on the line for the payment.

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Via what mechanism? Will they be ready to accept the payments a few hours from now? Ready to process the re-entry with procedures that aren’t even developed yet?

Getting into the country before the deadline is the only safe way to avoid the uncertainty and ensure you don’t get stranded out of the country or in an airport for days or weeks while the process is developed.

This hastily constructed and implemented executive order is a terrible way to run a country

Let me guess, you're not an immigrant?

lived 5yr on L1A. It's a week to leave the country if laid off. But at the same time, most of the penalties/costs fall on the sponsoring company for all cases.

ICE black shirts make it more uncertain on enforcement, but there's still laws.

I don't know about this. As a brown student on F1 visa, I even used to walk into Walmart different than I do now.

Because when it comes to immigration, the downside to getting it wrong are life-altering.

The expected value for immigrants is rapidly shifting into it being more favorable to be an illegal, because ICE/CBP is mostly going after low hanging fruit of easy to catch people that they know about with homes and salary jobs / university and a visa. People that are off paper and 100 miles past the border are as good as gone. So basically what we get is the exact opposite of what we want.

False.

ICE is about to have a ginormous work force

They’ll snatch whoever

Your own premise destroys your argument. If they're grabbing 'whoever' it's at least as easy to grab immigrants with a paper record as those that don't.

> they are the ones on the line for the payment.

And they decide if you keep your job.

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