Meta, Google, and Amazon slash H-1B petitions after Trump's visa crackdown

Business Insider ^ | Apr 2, 2026, 5:00 AM ET | Geoff Weiss , Melia Russell , Andy Kiersz , and Alex Nicoll

[wastedyears]

Total remigration, White nations for White people.

[escapefromboston]

We are not there yet, unfortunately..

[central_va]

The.number should be zero.

[escapefromboston]

I would have ended it and let the people here run out of their time (3 to 6 years), Gives businesses enough time to replace their slaves with American workers without too much disruption.

[packagingguy]

The fee likely won’t be reversed as any president doing so would run a grave risk of being a one termer.

[Salman]

A very good beginning. But only a beginning.

[FLT-bird]

WOW! Slap a $100K fee on H1Bs and suddenly companies “need” far fewer of them. Whodda thunk it?

[escapefromboston]

They might do it but they definitely won’t say it when running for office.

[jroehl]

I wonder where “Geoff Weiss , Melia Russell , Andy Kiersz , and Alex Nicoll” got their data from. There is like a year and a half lag on the reporting of this data. Because these companies practically run these federal agencies. Do they provide a link to this data? There is a LOT of lying going on about this stuff. You cant trust the data even if it is posted on an official website. Big tech lies a lot.

[butlerweave]

META is behind all these Age Verification bills for Operating Systems etc etc

[SharpRightTurn]

“Total remigration, White nations for White people.”

Yes

[Manuel OKelley]

You believe that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631732

[HYPOCRACY]

That is the glaringly obvious reason to end it. These companies now showing it’s 100% a cheap labor loophole.

[FLT-bird]

Oracle alone filing for more is the exception that proves the rule. As a whole H1B applications are way down.

[escapefromboston]

Hey its not just cheap labor
its also being able to treat foreign workers like garbage since they can’t leave the company without losing their visa !

[ckilmer]

what they don’t mention is that the layoffs at these large organizations have been monumental.

the hirings have all been the h1bs.

[Manuel OKelley]

The numbers keep going up not down and the current ones keep renewing

I fully understand a lot of posters here probably haven’t been in the job market for years but a whole hell of a lot of people are having a hard time and this isn’t helping

[Manuel OKelley]

https://x.com/LayoffAI/status/2039936897800351794?s=20

[wastedyears]

let the people here run out of their time

No, total forced remigration.