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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/24/21150943/onezero-medium-h-1b-visa-trump-administration-immigration-policy
Go read this survey about tech workers and H-1B visas under the Trump administration
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Over the last couple of decades, the US technology industry has become one of the dominant global forces shaping the ways we connect with each other; it’s easy to think about how much different and perhaps atomized the world would be if Facebook, for example, didn’t exist. Less discussed, however, is the effect the rest of the world has on Silicon Valley.
Today, the Medium technology publication OneZero published the results of a survey it conducted about America’s H-1B visa program — which, according to Pew, is “the primary way that companies in the United States hire high-skilled foreign workers.” That’s capped at 85,000 workers, which is less than 1 percent of the country’s workforce. President Trump’s Stephen Miller-designed “Buy...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/24/21150943/onezero-medium-h-1b-visa-trump-administration-immigration-policy
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