Thread by @Dan_Schwartz

@GrahamTAllison @GrahamTAllison, first off, you are conflating the O-1 Visa for “Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement” for the “top 0.1%” with the H-1B visa, which is for average talent, for coders and bookkeepers.
Start here:
(1/🧵)uscis.gov/working-in-the…

@GrahamTAllison @GrahamTAllison, now let’s talk about H-1B visa abuse: See this from @StClairAshley about H-1B visa body shops: (2/🧵)

https://x.com/stclairashley/status/1872671451163087150

@GrahamTAllison @stclairashley @GrahamTAllison, here is the decades-long story from @KWStewart94, who has since retired: (3/🧵)

https://x.com/kwstewart94/status/1872312088254619920

@GrahamTAllison @stclairashley @kwstewart94 @GrahamTAllison, these are the stories leading up to then-candidate @realDonaldTrump’s H-1B visa abuse position (no paywall):
Before he announced June 16, 2015:
• 6-3-2015 Page A1:
“Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements”
(4/🧵)archive.is/YZUNo

@GrahamTAllison @stclairashley @kwstewart94 @realDonaldTrump @GrahamTAllison, from Daily Caller:
• 6-9-2015:
“Disney Blacklisted Displaced American Workers”
(5/🧵)dailycaller.com/2015/06/09/dis…

@GrahamTAllison @stclairashley @kwstewart94 @realDonaldTrump @GrahamTAllison, from the @NYTimes:
• 11-10-2015:
“Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program, Leaving Smaller Ones in the Cold”
(6/🧵)archive.is/0fYIo

@GrahamTAllison @stclairashley @kwstewart94 @realDonaldTrump @nytimes @GrahamTAllison, again from the @NYTimes on @Disney’s H-1B abuses (no paywall):
• 1-26-2016:
“Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers With Immigrants”
(7/🧵)archive.is/b6RX8

@GrahamTAllison @stclairashley @kwstewart94 @realDonaldTrump @nytimes @Disney @GrahamTAllison, let’s take a look at the 1st 2 para’s of @VivekGRamaswamy’s tweet: What you see is flat-out age discrimination, swapping in H-1B visa holders who are practically serfs (see above) for experienced Engineers—like myself—to save money (8/🧵)
x.com/VivekGRamaswam…

@GrahamTAllison @stclairashley @kwstewart94 @realDonaldTrump @nytimes @Disney @VivekGRamaswamy @GrahamTAllison, what may look good in the Harvard faculty lounge falls flat on its face in The Real World.

We’ve seen the “Boston to Austin” connection on immigration going back to the early 1950’s with Sen. LBJ, which begat Eisenhower’s “Operation Wĕτḇἀck” in 1954. (9/end🧵)

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