Over 70 per cent of all H-1B visas issued by the U.S. go to Indian nationals. As a result, the Indian-origin population in America has tripled over the last 25 years from 1.6 million in the early 2000s to nearly 5 million today.
But there’s ample evidence the H-1B helps pretty much everyone else. Workers who enter the country on visas go on to start and run billion-dollar companies. Musk says he entered the country on a visa. He now runs Tesla, which employs more than 100,000 people .
A debate over the program for skilled foreign workers has pitted immigration hard-liners against some of President Trump’s most influential supporters in the tech industry.
"Why is this being suppressed? I talked to a bunch of mainstream media. They go, we've not heard of this. We haven't heard of the murder."
As newly inaugurated President Donald Trump readies his immigration crackdown, his allies in his Republican Party have splintered over policies surrounding U.S. worker visas intended to go to specialty occupations like the tech industry.
The onerous new immigration bill would empower state attorneys general to force wholesale visa denials. It turns out Bannon can use this to his advantage in the MAGA civil war over immigration.
The GOP has recently faced infighting concerning H-1B visas, which are offered to college-educated foreign professionals. Changes to these visas could affect the career plans of international students and scholars at Yale.
I’ll tell you who I got to pay attention to it: Stephen Miller. I’d met Stephen and Sergio Gor, who are now huge players in the White House and were two grundoons on the staff of Michele Bachmann, who was eventually the person who did kind of try to run as a populist —
With the introduction of the X Money Account and its partnership with Visa, Elon Musk is once again rewriting the rules of the tech world.
Donald Trump, during his election campaign, had promised to expel Hamas supporters from the country, and now he appears to be fulfilling that promise.
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The H-1B visa debate intensifies under Trump, impacting tech growth and the Indian American community, with calls for stricter controls vs. global competitiveness.