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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?
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Friday November 11 2016, @01:21AM
Unfortunately though, this election was a choice between a shit sandwich and a glass of vomit (your choice who was who). You could equally argue that voting for Hillary was tacit endorsement of her support for the big end of town at the expense of the little end. I'm still feeling the Bern.
I agree that Trump's election will be bad for minorities. But I disagree that it was the intent of all Trump voters (maybe some, but not all) to explicitly disadvantage minorities. His angle was about protecting American jobs. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that, if there were a crisis in the US flat-pack furniture industry, he'd try to send all of the Swedish home too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @07:21PM
This! Stop the division, even with Sanders on the ballot I would understand that some people would be too afraid of the scurrry "socialism" and vote Trump out of that fear. I wouldn't like it, I would think those people need to expand their own mind, but just voting for Trump wouldn't mean by default that they are racist / bigoted / idiots. Just differing opinions about what they think would make the US a better place.