How President Trump’s H-1B visa changes could impact Big Tech

CNBC ^ | 10/9/2025 | Jeff Huang

[marcusmaximus]

President Donald Trump announced plans in September to impose a $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications, a move that could pose a challenge to companies, particularly in the technology sector, that rely heavily on highly skilled foreign workers.

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"If you're going to train somebody, you're going to train one of the recent graduates from one of the great universities across our land. Train Americans. Stop bringing in people to take our jobs," said Lutnick.

Meanwhile, critics of the fee hikes say the move could stifle innovation by restricting the flow of overseas talent to the United States.

"If you think about people like Elon Musk, for example, when they were startups, they were on a very slim budget and working out of their garage," said Jeff Joseph, president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. "All of those business never would exist today if that was the situation that we found ourselves in."

[JonPreston]

There is no bigger globalist on this forum than marcusmucus. He is a common Troll, currently engaged in an effort to get unsuspecting FReepers to say something they will regret. Proceed with caution when engaging with him.

[oldbill]

You are naive. The free market doesn’t exist when an American engineering graduate has to compete with H-1B foreign hires who will work at much lower wages as indentured servants to the tech companies that hire them.

And those H-1Bs are not all Elon Musk geniuses. Most of them are inferior -very inferior - in intelligence, competency, work ethic, and good old American ingenuity. Don’t think so? Try working with some of them.

[central_va]

Going forward the free market for DOMESTIC labor will work if new H-1b are limited to a trickle which is what I think will happen STARTING NEXT YEAR. This year is still the us worker screwing lottery.

[central_va]

Well he is doing a great job here.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I have a family member that says he is very happy it will allow him to hire more AMERICANS.

[Pythion.net]

"You are naive. The free market doesn’t exist when an American engineering graduate has to compete with H-1B foreign hires who will work at much lower wages as indentured servants to the tech companies that hire them.

And those H-1Bs are not all Elon Musk geniuses. Most of them are inferior -very inferior - in intelligence, competency, work ethic, and good old American ingenuity. Don’t think so? Try working with some of them."

My son is directly impacted by this. The H-1Bs are cheap. Period. In every sense of the word. And they are not white so even if it weren't because of the money they would still get preferential treatment. Another thing they often lack is integrity. Companies can get them for a dime a dozen and that is what most of them are worth.

[SunkenCiv]

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