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Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

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1245 points mriguy | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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suriya-ganesh ◴[19 Sep 25 20:57 UTC] No.45306489[source]▶
Interesting decision. I'm on the F1 -> H1B pipeline myself as a software engineer. And my wife is a researcher working on Genetic Engineering.

Of the both of us, I've been the strong proponent for moving the US. and with each passing day, its getting harder to make a strong case for the pain, and uncertainty of moving here.

Lately everything has been counter to what one would expect from a pro-growth, accelerationist country. But I understand where the reasoning is coming from, though.

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fred_is_fred ◴[19 Sep 25 21:01 UTC] No.45306535[source]▶
with each passing day, its getting harder to make a strong case for the pain, and uncertainty of moving here.

That is exactly the goal here by this administration.

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dyauspitr ◴[19 Sep 25 21:04 UTC] No.45306563[source]▶
Shutting down the H1B is the end of the American success story. First generation immigrants have started the majority of our unicorns.
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halfmatthalfcat ◴[19 Sep 25 21:22 UTC] No.45306790[source]▶
So there were no American immigrant success stories pre-1990, when the H-1 program started?
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1. tzs ◴[19 Sep 25 23:47 UTC] No.45308169{3}[source]▶
I don't think their statement implies that. Note that they said it will be the end of the American success story, not the end of the American immigrant success story.

The nature of the American success story changes over time and with that the nature of immigrant success also changes.

In the last decade or so tech, especially information tech, has been one of the biggest contributors to growth in the US economy, and first generation immigrants have been a big contributor to that. For example, first generation immigrants have founded many of the tech unicorns (although I think he overstated it a little--my searching suggests it is closed to 40-50% rather than a majority).

In earlier decades the biggest contributors at various times included manufacturing, farm technology, defense, the Gulf Coast petroleum industry, and construction.

There were certainly immigrants involved in all those but not nearly to the extent that they are in present day tech, especially at the top.