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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SUNY-B is on that list, but not Cornell...?
We are over the target! Tremendous flack these globalists are putting up!
Oh well.
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.
This is just the beginning.
Maybe they will have to lower tuition rate so Americans will want to go to their college
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.
That’s why they’re squealing like pigs now.
“...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
Not just the unis.
The city of Binghamton, NY is an economic wasteland.
“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.
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.
You beat me to it…😂. His “attack”….. no wonder the media is at an all time low for credibility.
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.
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.
Every one of those programs is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by the US taxpayers. So, excuse me for not crying.
As a former engineering prof I can confirm.
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.
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.
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