Good evening. Everybody, hope you're doing well. It is the 27th of December 2024 and every now and then. As you know, I will dip into the World of X slash Twitter. And what did I see? A mushroom cloud of former credibility in the shape of Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk,

around this H-1B visa program.

In the United States, a lot of places have them as a whole.

I was a hiring manager.

I was chief technical officer and director of technology at two separate companies, then

a director of marketing.

So I have hired probably 100 people over the course of my career, interviewed well over

a thousand.

And so I have some pretty unique experience about all of this.

So we're going to go into a little bit of the H-1B history.

This is just sort of a necessary factual basis for getting into the philosophical discussion.

So let's dive right in.

So 1952, there was something called the McCarron Waiter.

Sorry, the McCarrin-Walter Act.

This laid the foundation for temporary worker visas,

including the H-1 visa category,

allowing foreign workers to enter the U.S. temporarily for employment purposes.

1965, the Immigration and Nationality Act,

1965, not a ban a year for American immigration policy, in my humble opinion.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 shifted immigration policy to

prioritize family reunification and skilled workers.

Although the H-1 visa category was included, it did not specifically focus on highly skilled

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