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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:12PM (#425422)

    > It's almost like stuff Trump said and did 20 years ago didn't matter.

    It's like stuff he said and did on stage during the campaign didn't matter.
    Or it did matter, but they just thought it wouldn't ever apply to them or their family, so no biggee.
    First they came...

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