Brad Smith/ISI Photos//Getty Images Among its more obvious faultsand there is no bigger one than the vicious clowns the president has appointed to run itthe administration's toxic spitball approach to immigration is almost completely incoherent. This administration is deliberately oblivious to consequences anyway, be they intended or unintended. However, its policies on H-1B visas is doing real world damage in many different places.
Ingraham argued that visas would make it harder for Trump to achieve his goal of raising wages for US workers. You also do have to bring in talent, Trump countered. When Ingraham said the US already had plenty of talented people here, Trump responded no. You don't have certain talents. And you have to, people have to learn. You can't take people off, like an unemployment line, and say, I'm going to put you into a factory. We're going to make missiles,' he said.
Defending Trump's remarks during a panel debate on CNN NewsNight, Jennings insisted, He is supported by a great many people who see the value in highly specialized, talented people being able to come here. Host Abby Phillip replied, He's not really saying clearly what the policy ought to be, he's just saying we don't have talented people in the United States to do these jobs, which is not true.
Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, is urging the state's universities to stop hiring international employees through the H-1B visa program. DeSantis said he wants the Florida board of governors to pull the plug on the practice. Nearly 400 foreign nationals are currently employed at Florida's public universities under the H-1B visa program, reported the Orlando Sentinel. Universities across the country are importing foreign workers on H-1B visas instead of hiring Americans who are qualified and available to do the job, said DeSantis in a statement.
The lawsuit said the fee, which President Donald Trump put in place with an executive order last month, was "unlawful" and that it would harm American businesses. "The United States is unique in its ability to attract the brightest talent from across the globe. For more than 70 years, what is now known as the H-1B visa program has enabled the United States to harness this magnetic draw," the lawsuit said, adding that as a result of the new fee businesses would have to "dramatically increase their labor costs or hire fewer highly skilled employees for whom domestic replacements are not readily available."
Disney isn't just one of the world's best-known companies and most iconic brands - it's also a dream job for many. The Mouse House has hundreds of thousands of employees across its streaming division, movie studios, theme parks, and other subsidiaries like TV networks ESPN and ABC. A top Disney priority under CEO Bob Iger is strengthening its streaming business by combining Disney+ and Hulu, investing in content, and increasing prices.
"As one of many immigrants at Nvidia, I know that the opportunities we've found in America have profoundly shaped our lives," he wrote. "And the miracle of Nvidia - built by all of you, and by brilliant colleagues around the world - would not be possible without immigration." Huang said "legal immigration remains essential to ensuring the US continues to lead in technology and ideas," and that the Trump administration's "recent changes reaffirm this."
Two US senators have questions for Big Tech and other top companies over their use of H-1B visas amid the Trump administration's push to slow down foreign worker hiring practices. In letters sent to 10 companies on Wednesday, including Amazon, Apple, Deloitte, and JPMorgan Chase, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking member Sen. Dick Durbin said they were concerned about the use of H-1B visa workers while the tech sector experiences a "high unemployment rate."
President Donald Trump's new H-1B visa policy may hit Big Tech the hardest, but Wall Street is well within the blast zone. Big banks like JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Citi have long used these work visas to hire a range of highly skilled overseas workers, from junior bankers to technologists and even risk managers and traders. Trump's late Friday executive order, which raised the application fee to $100,000 each, is expected to upend this hiring process in a way that could
Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Friday that would impose an annual $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications, dealing a potentially major blow to the US tech industry, which relies more than any other sector of the US economy on immigrants who hold these visas. Trump's threat to crack down on H-1B visas has become a major flashpoint with the tech industry.
Analysts said the impact should be moderate, given that the fees apply only to new applications, but warned that a constrained supply of skilled workers in the U.S. may push wages higher and squeeze margins. Companies including Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs were among those that sent urgent emails to their employees with travel advisories.
Business Insider published the memos from Amazon and Microsoft, while Sources published a similar memo from Google. TechCrunch has reached out to Amazon, Microsoft, and Google for comment. According to government data, Amazon employees have received the most H-1B visas so far this fiscal year, followed by Tata Consultancy Services, then Microsoft, Meta, and Apple, with Google ranked sixth. Meanwhile, a White House official told Axios that the fee will only apply to new applicants, not existing H-1B holders or renewals.
