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0 pointsConsultant324528y ago0 comments

>There are only 85000 H1B Visas allowed each year.

85,000 NEW H1Bs are issued each year, they last 3 years and can be extended for another 3. So right off the bat that's as many as half a million. There is no issue limit on H1Bs for universities and non-profits. In 2012 alone, for example, the total number of H1Bs (normal + university/non-profit) issued was 135,530. It's safe to say there are far more than 85,000 H1Bs in the US.

>because they can't find enough people at any price who are willing to do farm work since the crackdown.

I suspect their definition of "any price" is very different than mine.

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scarface748y ago· 2 in thread

At any price that they could still harvest the food and sell it at a price that people would be willing to buy the food.

Consultant32452OP8y ago

I suspect the consumers will get over it once hunger sets in. I'm not really sympathetic to the consumers who may lose access to artificially low pricing subsidized by policies intending to keep wages low amongst the poorest people in our country.

scarface748y ago

Poor people already often can't afford healthy food. What do you think happens when food prices go up because farmers have to pay 5x as much to attract labor? Yes there are farmers who are offering five times as much and still can't find reliable labor.

On the other hand, I'm sure overprocessed sodium filled food and fast food will become a lot more attractive than even what it is today.

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