The events of the last couple of days have shown me that many ‘nice’, not Republican people want to see where on the pecking order they can place immigrants.

[jeff@indieweb.social]

@skinnylatte For what it’s worth, as somebody who works in tech, I value my H1B colleagues and consider them a valuable addition to our country and economy.

That so-called liberals will toss them under the bus for partisan or protectionist reasons is disappointing, but not that surprising.

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@jeff thank you

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@skinnylatte @aud Fuck around & find out, Robert Reich.

[phillmv@hachyderm.io]

@skinnylatte between the genocide in gaza and being trans, this year has really shown me how fragile the consensus is on “not being a huge shithead”

[sobieck@hachyderm.io]

@skinnylatte It was so infuriating watching liberals go from principled defenders migrants during the Trump years to cheerleaders for Trump policies that Biden continued and elaborated on. Leading up to the election it was nauseating watching them grouse about how Trump didn't allow them to "fix" the border with a fascist law.

I'm surprised these liberals aren't going back to "principled" defense of migrants. I was kind of looking forward to it, but I guess the Overton window has shifted.

[krafttea@mastodon.social]

@skinnylatte Yeah, the issue never was that H-1B visas were bad for the country, as far as Elon goes. (For that matter, neither are visas for migrant workers or simply letting ANYONE work in the country.)

The issue is that Elon is a hypocrite who broke the rules to work in the country, routinely violated labor laws, endangering his workers, moved much of his labor to Texas where he can screw his workers over harder, and is exactly the person who shouldn't be the poster boy for H1-B.

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@KraftTea yeah he sucks. He’s not on anyone’s side. But the people who aren’t loudly defending immigrants worry me when they think they’re the good guys. They are more fixated on Elon and advocating for bad things to happen to immigrants just because Elon pisses them off. Totally off priorities

[sipi_xo@indg.club]

@skinnylatte @aud I can't stand Robert Reich or his online presence. He's a hypocrite.

The guy is literally a NIMBY who fought against building affordable housing in his posh Berkeley neighborhood and his son is the CEO of CollegeHumor.

I don't need this former Clintonite to tell me how bad things are.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

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[tek@www.urbanmind.net]

@skinnylatte This is a bait topic. The real issue is the #claSswar

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@tek yes and I’m going to keep yelling at Americans who fall for it without advocating for immigrants, no matter where they lie politically