Posted on 09/29/2025 11:59:10 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Donald Trump's new $100,000 fee on H-1B foreign visas has shattered the dreams of Indian university students hoping to make it big in the United States.
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n 2023, nearly three-quarters, approximately 73 percent, of all H-1B workers whose applications were approved were born in India, according to the Pew Research Center.
When the White House announced the $100,000 fee last week, students at technical universities across Indian said their hearts broke.
'My dreams were shattered,' Sai Jagruthi, a 17-year-old engineering student at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, told The New York Times.
She said her father called her to tell her the news and recalled him saying, 'It was the best option, and we are going to lose it.'
Jagruthi said it was extra devastating because she knows her father 'wants a better life for their daughters than his own. Going to the US was a ticket to that.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
$100k is a bargain
Why are they all so eager to come to the USA? I thought the USA is a racist, Nazi, fascist state. Democrats tell us this every day and Democrats never lie, right?
What about the dreams that American parents have for their children?
What about the dreams that American parents have for their children?
High achievers should be worth more. Evidently they aren’t.
India is not sending their best.
What’s more is that we are not a dumping ground for other countries unemployed, unskilled or uneducated. If you come here to undercut our own seeking work then yes, you should be subject to restrictions. Too effing bad.
CC
Distraught? No one and nothing is stopping them from applying for citizenship.
No, it’s about getting the shortcuts or cheating, as usual.
Oh no, they’ll have to use American engineers.
They should work to MIG - Make India Great.
They could start by cleaning up the Ganges.
Posted on 9/29/2025, 9:53:29 AM by Jim Robinson
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True. Thanks to President Trump, everyone can see that now.
For many Indians the USA is a place where if you work hard, you can rise to incredible heights.
The Democrats are losers
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