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Tesla has replaced some of its US employees who were let go as part of a big wave of layoffs earlier this year with foreign workers using H-1B visas, which CEO Elon Musk is now campaigning to increase.

Over the last week, Elon Musk has been promoting the increase of H-1B visas, which are used to bring foreign workers into the US for “specialty occupations.”

Qualified foreign workers need to be sponsored by a company to get the visa, which lasts three years, extendable to six years, after which the holder needs to reapply.

The visa holder must maintain employment at the visa sponsor to retain the work visa. The worker would have to leave the country if the employment ends for whatever reason. This has led to some criticism as it gives tremendous power to the employer and can lead to a modern version of indentured servitude.

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[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

It does fit the President Musk narrative. You play around with H1B you can skirt some pesky American labor laws, pay less, etc. I’d be curious to know what the benefits package, if any, looks like for H1B workers. We need a contract to post.

Musk is not a friend to the American working class, as defined by his behaviors. Quite the opposite.

Great system btw. Jack up the price of education making it inaccessible to Americans. Screw around with the loan system such that student debt never really gets paid down. (Someone in Musks tier is cashing in there). Contest student loan forgiveness on people who’d been paying for 10yrs (condition to get the forgiveness), win.

Give education spots to people from other countries instead.

But you have your degree and debt and have a job now too. Then, as an American, get fired only to be replaced with an H1B worker.

Outsourcing American education and jobs inside the United States.

American Dream level, that.

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