Zeeshan Aleem · Wednesday, February 08, 2017, 2:56 pm
Cutting back on high-skilled workers could have far-reaching effects.
Much of Silicon Valley has united in an effort to push back against President Trump’s polarizing ban on refugees and travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries. Some of that is because they want to take a stand against those specific policies. But it’s also an effort to build momentum against the immigration measures that they fear may come next.
Their biggest concern is a draft executive order showing that the Trump administration is planning to revise the H-1B program, which provides around 85,000 visas annually to high-skilled foreigners who are supposed to bring expertise that can’t be found among American workers.
H-1B visas are given to people across a wide variety of industries, but they’re particularly crucial to tech: The top three H-1B jobs are computer systems analysts, application software developers, and computer programmers. Together, those occupations make up half of the visas in the H-1B program.
The Trump administration has offered few details on what it plans to do with the program other than looking into how to make it “more efficient” and ensuring it admits “the best and the brightest.”
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http://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/8/14547212/trump-executive-order-h1b-silicon-valley
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