The Trump administration is putting into effect its plan to stop giving work permits to spouses of high-skilled visa holders, likely to be a tremendous blow to the tech industry.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, this would affect about 100,000 workers, most of whom live in California.
The Obama administration originally set up the H-4 permit program to help attract high-skilled workers from places like India, and to help their families stay in America with them while waiting to get their green cards.
Repealing the program will split apart families already settled in the U.S. and likely deter highly educated immigrants from coming and doing critical work in the tech industry.
Time to revoke the citizenship of Slovenian models who came on tourist visas and started working.
Followed immediately by any chain migration which happened subsequently.
Hmmmm… who can I be cruel to today?
And all the russkies coming over in droves to have their anchor babies
Yeah, nothing like creating incentives to get smart people to come to our shores.
Not…
When asked why they are restricting spouses of those getting work visas from being able to get employment here, Trump tweeted: “we don’t need more educated people. They don’t vote for me.”