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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: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:47PM (#425454)

    Uh, no dumbshit.

    The fact that Trump did manage to win the vote of some women and gays means it really isn't as large of an issue as you make it out to be.

    So when you lord yourself as being the spokesperson for ALL women and gays, you've just made the 2 dimensional, mere caricatures.

    This is the equivalent of "the gubermint gonna take my guns" when Obama was elected, your head is just too far up your ass to see.

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  • (Score: 2) by julian on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:59PM

    by julian (6003) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:59PM (#425461)

    So when you lord yourself as being the spokesperson for ALL

    hahaha! Nowhere did I do this. Stop projecting.

    This is how it works: if you're a human you ought to care about human rights. If you don't, you're a nihilist and I have no time for you--not that you'd care.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @12:03AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @12:03AM (#425466)

      So where was your concern about all the brown people Hilary wanted to bomb?

      Yeah.

      • (Score: 2) by tisI on Friday November 11 2016, @05:47AM

        by tisI (5866) on Friday November 11 2016, @05:47AM (#425581)

        Citation needed.
        Or did you just make up that one too?

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        "Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself."