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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) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @12:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @12:42AM (#425484)

    Nah, only about 4% of Trump voters were previously non-voters.
      The rest were same-old same-old republicans just voting for the guy with an (R) like they always do.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 11 2016, @01:45AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday November 11 2016, @01:45AM (#425515) Homepage Journal

    Yeah, that's utterly not what I said. Trump was a shot of piss in the eye to the Republican politicians. A vote of utter lack of confidence.

    --
    My rights don't end where your fear begins.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @02:08AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @02:08AM (#425526)

      If something you year doesn't line up with your world view, you really just go full-on retard, don't you?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @03:55AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @03:55AM (#425559)

      > Trump was a shot of piss in the eye to the Republican politicians. A vote of utter lack of confidence.

      Except that down-ballot incumbent republicans out-performed Trump.
      In other words, even more people voted for status-quo republicans than voted for Trump. [dailywire.com]

      But what do I know? I'm just a dickmunch. Munch... munch... munch. Hmmm so good!