this is not as massive as it is being made out to be.
The chances of a spouse of an existing H1-b holder who is past his/her 6 yr H1b visa and has his/her GC under processing, getting Work Authorization for a STEM job, is almost nonexistent!!!
This plan will likely only displace workers in the low end of the tech job spectrum - one where I see a significant amount of american tech workers doing contract jobs for manual testing, simple tool programming etc. I'm not saying that american workers can only take the low end of the tech market (quite the contrary), but companies have been relying on not-so-skilled contractors for the simple tasks for a long time.
I've seen many highly skilled spouses of H1B visas getting jobs because ultimately companies can apply for these visas already. This one in particular really looks like it is trying to displace the low end of the market by dumping thousands of people on the market who would accept rock bottom wages.
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I've seen many highly skilled spouses of H1B visas getting jobs because ultimately companies can apply for these visas already. This one in particular really looks like it is trying to displace the low end of the market by dumping thousands of people on the market who would accept rock bottom wages.