Looks like a moderator downweighted the submission, probably because it was on the sensational-controversy-indignation-hotbutton side of the ledger, without any significant new information to compensate for it. Indeed the story was from 2019. It was probably a borderline call, but there are a lot of these H1-B/visa/immigration threads and they regularly turn into flamewars, so we have to moderate them a la https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
