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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of those visa workers in tech eventually become citizens. Some have even created patents for tech companies.

If you look at the winners of things like the science olympiad, many of those students are children of immigrants, and I bet some of those parents came on those work visas.[/quote]

Some, not all.

The point is not that everyone in the US on an H-1B visa shouldn't be here, but that the program has a lot of fraud and abuse that should be routed out.

If you want to fix the immigration system you can't ignored this visa program. The program admitted more applicants in 2023 than ever before -- over 750k workers. And the jobs they fill are high paying. If there is fraud in the system where companies are exploiting H-1B labor when there are Americans available for these jobs, that's a significant number of jobs that are going to foreign workers.

Should also note that H-1B denials reached an all time high under Trump the first time, with nearly a quarter of all applications being denied at one point. This is not to be confused with the restrictions on H-1B visas that were put in place during COVID (which substantially reduced the number of visa holders entering the country in 2020 and 2021) -- his administration simply rejected more of these applications than prior administrations.

Even if you are already on a granted visa this should concern you because if you have to change jobs, a crack down on H-1B visas could make it harder for you to find another job. Since economic volatility during Trump could also make layoffs more likely (especially in tech and finance which are more likely to have H-1B recipents than other industries and both particularly susceptible to cyclical downturns), this should concern H-1B visa holders as well as anyone currently on a student visa and hoping to apply for the program in the next few years.[/quote]

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