The Trump administration is quietly cracking down on documented immigrants

[babylonsister]

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-immigrants-h1b-h4/

The Trump administration is quietly cracking down on documented immigrants
Immigrants on highly-skilled visas, as well as their partners, are the targets of an under-the-radar effort to weed out foreign workers.
E.A. Crunden
Apr 28, 2018, 8:00 am


The Trump administration is quietly targeting visas for highly-skilled foreign workers and their spouses as part of a sweeping effort to cut down on immigration to the United States. Activists say the move is inhumane and business leaders argue it will hurt the economy.

A report released Tuesday by the Silicon Valley-backed immigration lobbying group FWD.us lays out the White House’s ongoing assault on immigration more broadly, as well as under-the-radar efforts targeting documented immigrants specifically. Founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the organization’s report argues that President Trump’s administration has made “immigration harder and more burdensome with the goal of reducing overall legal immigration.”

Central to the analysis is the issue of H-1B visas, which are traditionally awarded to highly-skilled foreign workers, as well as H-4 visas, which allow their spouses to live in the United States with them.

H-4 visas in particular are becoming a source of contention, the report notes. In recent years, 9 out of 10 H-4 visa recipients were women and nearly 80 percent were Indian. But until recently, H-4 visa holders were unable to work, an issue disproportionately impacting Indian women with advanced degrees and years of work experience, many of whom reported severe mental health ramifications as a result of the rule.

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“We are facing a fundamental, existential question as a nation,” the organization writes. “Will we remain the leader of global innovation and business, ‘the place’ to come to study, work, and build the most innovative companies — or will we sacrifice that leadership role, and our core identity as a nation that welcomes immigrants, by telling the majority of the world that they are not welcome here?”

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend for visibility

[sharedvalues]

2. Bringing brains to America is the key issue

Perhaps the biggest reason the US economy is so strong is innovation, driven by US research, tech, and universities.

That innovation depends on the US attracting the smartest people in the world here, due to our amazing university system, our good environment for startups, and a culture that is welcoming for immigrants. If you’re a smart person in Spain, you might find it difficult to move to Germany, which is much more homogenous culturally and socially than the US - so in the past the smart Spanish person, on average, has chosen to come to the US.

The republicans and this president are destroying America’s innovation economy with their pursuit of racists and xenophobes (to get votes for billionaires). It is unconscionable, unamerican, and it will make our grandchildren poorer.

[dalton99a]

3. To make room for white people from places like Norway

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Or from the UK......

Avoid friend if mine from England, who is a permanent Legal Resident, may have to watch his back after living and working in the U.S. for 37 years.

This us inhumane. My Endocrinologist is from India.