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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: 0.252s | source
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technocrat8080 ◴[20 Sep 25 01:45 UTC] No.45309243[source]▶
How are startups supposed to afford this? How are talented H-1B workers supposed to start companies? And no, the answer is not always an O-1. I know plenty of foreign founders contributing meaningfully to the US economy, now slapped with a 100k fee.
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fooey ◴[20 Sep 25 01:58 UTC] No.45309387[source]▶
they're not, it's a moat
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1. technocrat8080 ◴[20 Sep 25 02:26 UTC] No.45309651[source]▶
Great, let's punish early stage startups instead of rewarding the successful ones.