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Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use
President-elect Donald Trump realized early in his campaign that U.S. IT workers were angry over training foreign visa-holding replacements [computerworld.com]. 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 [computerworld.com] in Alabama in February. "I believe Mr. Trump is for Americans first."
Yes, US nerds were angry about training H-1B replacements, but could they really have put him over the top?
