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

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.

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.

Shutting down the H1B is the end of the American success story. First generation immigrants have started the majority of our unicorns.

So there were no American immigrant success stories pre-1990, when the H-1 program started?

The H-1 program started as a "correction" to the tightening of immigration rules as a whole over time.

Consider that, in 1905, my great-grandfather got on a boat in Italy, sailed across the Atlantic, arrived in New York, went through a very simple immigration process on-site, and at that point was legal to live and work in the US for as long as he wanted. He eventually naturalized as a US citizen in 1920, only needing to prove his residency and present the record of his legal entrance 15 years prior.

We're a long way from that state of affairs now. The H-1 program was developed because we weren't getting enough of an influx of skilled work due to the reduction in immigration caused by new, more-restrictive immigration laws enacted over the prior decades.