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Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use

posted by martyb on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the revenge-of-the-nerds? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

President-elect Donald Trump realized early in his campaign that U.S. IT workers were angry over training foreign visa-holding replacements. He knew this anger was volcanic.

Trump is the first major U.S. presidential candidate in this race -- or any previous presidential race -- to focus on the use of the H-1B visa to displace IT workers. He asked former Disney IT employees, upset over having to train foreign replacements, to speak at his rallies.

"The fact is that Americans are losing their jobs to foreigners," said Dena Moore, a former Disney IT worker at a Trump rally in Alabama in February. "I believe Mr. Trump is for Americans first."

Yes, US nerds were angry about training H-1B replacements, but how much could they have helped put him over the top?

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:43PM

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:43PM (#425390) Journal

    No, you've always had that sig. The archives are full of it dating back the Pleistocene.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:51PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:51PM (#425398) Homepage Journal

    Didn't you used to have a different sig?

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    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:52PM

      by frojack (1554) on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:52PM (#425400) Journal

      There's no record of that.

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      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday November 11 2016, @02:27AM

        by Gaaark (41) on Friday November 11 2016, @02:27AM (#425532) Journal

        and he is mistaken!

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