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bradleyankrom • today at 3:28 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

The AP blurb[0] has different quotes and includes an accusation of fraud that's missing from the Bloomberg article.

> Vance said Thursday, “If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants.” Vance spoke in a White House news conference announcing the decision.

[0] https://apnews.com/live/trump-midterm-elections-news-updates...


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Centigonal • today at 3:43 PM

Accepting Vance's premise, is he saying that the solution to replacing American workers with indentured servants is... removing the path out of indentured servitude? It sounds like they're not touching H1-B itself, just the path from H1-B to residency.

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dfxm12 • today at 3:39 PM

Narrator: He did not do the math.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/new-aclu-afl-cio-report-...

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drop_star • today at 3:30 PM

Did he do the math? Or are they still eating cats and dogs?

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