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

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1321 points mriguy | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.526s | source
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bhouston ◴[20 Sep 25 01:12 UTC] No.45308820[source]▶
This is actually smart. Many H1B visas are used to undermine fair labor wages for already local talent. We should ensure that H1B visas are for actual unique talent and not just to undercut local wages.

H1B is ripe with abuse - this article by Bloomberg says that half of all H1-B visas are used by Indian staffing firms that pay significantly lower than the US laborers they are replacing:

- https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-h1b-visa-middlemen-c...

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1. bhouston ◴[20 Sep 25 01:46 UTC] No.45309252[source]▶
Trump is following mostly the Project 2025 plan that was put together but others: it called for greatly reducing H1-B visas.

And supposedly a lot of his power grab moves are being run by Stephen Miller: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/step...