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These 25 Universities Will Take A Big Hit From Trump’s H-1B Visa Attack
Forbes ^ | 10/7/2025 | Janet Novack

Posted on 10/07/2025 3:40:13 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

There’s been lots of discussion about which tech companies will be the biggest losers from President Donald Trump’s broad assault on H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, including a $100,000 fee for each new visa recipient. But the impact could be felt first by universities, says Jeremy Neufeld, the director of immigration policy at the Institute for Progress, a nonpartisan Washington think tank.

That's because the fee won’t apply to companies until next March, when the annual lottery for the roughly 85,000 new commercial H-1B visas awarded each year, takes place. Meanwhile, universities and certain other research and not-for-profit organizations benefit from an exemption that allows them to apply for visas year round, outside the 85,000 cap or the lottery. “The universities are on the frontlines and this is just a pure tax on their pipeline,” declares Neufeld.

It’s not just the fee that could hit universities hard. Another part of the Trump Administration’s September H-1B attack is a proposal to shift the rules of the visa lottery to favor older (and hence, presumably higher-paid) workers. That makes it harder for foreign students who graduate from U.S. universities with PhDs and master’s degrees to stay here to work–which has always been part of the payoff of a U.S. education. Moreover, the H-1B proposal comes on top of rules changes the Administration proposed in August for F-1 student visas, which would put new time limits on these visas and make it harder for foreign graduates of U.S. colleges and universities to use the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program. OPT has allowed foreign students to stay after graduation and get work experience for one year, or three years if they majored in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) subjects.

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The H1B, F1 and OPT pimps are really mad.
1 posted on 10/07/2025 3:40:13 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

SUNY-B is on that list, but not Cornell...?


2 posted on 10/07/2025 3:42:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: marcusmaximus

We are over the target! Tremendous flack these globalists are putting up!


3 posted on 10/07/2025 3:43:23 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: marcusmaximus

Oh well.


4 posted on 10/07/2025 3:43:56 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Socialism's promises, like a Djinn's wishes to the greedy, lead to punishment when due. )
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To: marcusmaximus; All

This story isn’t really about India at all. In fact this whole H-1b visa saga is about ending unfair hiring practices discriminating against US workers.

Many decades ago Bill Gates and other tech oligarchs chose to brain drain India. They could have chosen China or the Eastern block.

I just hope everyone gets that.


5 posted on 10/07/2025 3:44:44 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

This is just the beginning.


6 posted on 10/07/2025 3:45:13 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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Maybe they will have to lower tuition rate so Americans will want to go to their college


7 posted on 10/07/2025 3:49:45 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: marcusmaximus

I’m going to guess that H1B paid grad students are low cost labor for university professors with big research budgets. To hell with them. Hire American.


8 posted on 10/07/2025 3:49:47 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

That’s why they’re squealing like pigs now.


9 posted on 10/07/2025 3:52:25 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

“...Professor Jorge Coronado, an expert in modern Latin American and Andean literature...”

That is one hell of an “expert”. This is what USA taxpayers are funding. That degree should be enough to shine shoes in the private sector. /spit


10 posted on 10/07/2025 3:55:34 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Not just the unis.

The city of Binghamton, NY is an economic wasteland.


11 posted on 10/07/2025 3:57:55 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: marcusmaximus

“H1B Attack” ROTFLMAO! Its a fee you corporate shills....a fee that protects American workers from hordes of imported cheap labor after the giveaway to corporations that allowed them to cheat the free market and screw over American workers for 35 years. Boo Hoo, they’ll just have to hire Americans in America....and they’ll have to pay wages determined by the free market. Oh the horror!

I’m glad to see President Trump is cracking down on the OPT visas. We have 750,000 H1Bs but we also have about 420,000 OPTs. Well over 1 million imported indentured servants has badly distorted the American labor market.


12 posted on 10/07/2025 4:02:14 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: central_va

It wasn’t about draining brains as much as it was about saving money. Multiple $30,000/yr savings by the number of tech workers and it is billions of dollars, possibly over a trillion since Big Tech set up shop.


13 posted on 10/07/2025 4:05:44 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Socialism's promises, like a Djinn's wishes to the greedy, lead to punishment when due. )
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To: FLT-bird

You beat me to it…😂. His “attack”….. no wonder the media is at an all time low for credibility.


14 posted on 10/07/2025 4:08:52 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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Maybe they will have to lower tuition rate so Americans will want to go to their college

True that. Maybe also the universities will quit running away potential students with the persistent anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-white indoctrination that turns away most Americans but is pleasing to most foreign students.

15 posted on 10/07/2025 4:16:16 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Jonty30; All

You are dead on. Yes, the brain drain was from the 3rd world to avoid paying Americans 1st world wages. Add on top of that the imports were basically indentured to their employer! The whole saga is an ongoing sick globalist nightmare.


16 posted on 10/07/2025 4:16:46 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: marcusmaximus

Every one of those programs is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by the US taxpayers. So, excuse me for not crying.


17 posted on 10/07/2025 4:21:22 AM PDT by MMusson ( )
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To: FreedomPoster

As a former engineering prof I can confirm.


18 posted on 10/07/2025 4:25:41 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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To: central_va

It certainly wasn’t over intelligence, because the average IQ of Hundus is one deviation, about 15 IQ points, below the average IQ of Americans. Fo rthem to find Indians with an approximate IQ of 120, they have to search for Indians that are 2 deviations above their average. For Americans, they only need to find people that are about 1 deviation above the average which is much more obtainable in America than 2 deviations in India.


19 posted on 10/07/2025 4:57:10 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Socialism's promises, like a Djinn's wishes to the greedy, lead to punishment when due. )
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All of these universities can dip into their multi-billion dollar endowments and open universities in India. If there are that many wealthy Indian students seeking a degree, they could make a fortune in tuition.

The bonus is they have a lot of professors that hate America and White people and would probably follow them there.

EC


20 posted on 10/07/2025 4:57:40 AM PDT by Ex-Con777 (Leftists quote the Constitution like an atheist quotes the Bible)
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