Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealty

Donald Trump did not make their secrets secretly. The cornerstone was in its political movement since this elevator descended on June 16, 2015 and began to throw the racist Vitriol in the general direction of Mexico and Mexican Americans. On the surface, its attack on the H-1B visa program appears to be part of the White House’s ongoing campaign to reduce the number of migrants in the country. This effect may be, but Trump’s greatest goal may not force companies to employ more Americans or reduce the number of workers from India moving to the United States. It gives the government more influence over its imaginative enemies, especially the technology world.

The restrictions imposed in accordance with sub -sections (A) and (B) of this section do not apply to any foreign individual, and all foreigners who work in a company, or all foreigners who work in an industry, if the Minister of Internal Security decides to estimate the National Secretary, they do not envision the threat.

In short, it appears that the Minister of Internal Security can excuse any person, company, or even the entire industry from travel restrictions and $ 100,000 at its discretion (or most likely, the president). This is the bus that betrays a major purpose of advertising.

The technology industry and Donald Trump were long at odds with each other, even if the president had brought it largely to the heel in his second term. The White House has already made a big offer to make technology executives walk themselves to know who can falsify or dazzle Trump more. Now, more concessions and compliments such as Satia Nadella can come out, fearing that he would choose between dropping half a billion dollars on visa fees or replacing more than 5,000 high skill employees.

Not companies like Meta, Microsoft and Amazon are the only major beneficiaries of H-1B. Financial industry, including companies such as JP Morgan Chase and Deloitte, each has more than 2000 H-1B workers on salary statements according to federal data. It will not be a surprise if the Minister of Internal Security decided to give JP Morgan a concession, for example, suddenly gave a loan to Trump or made a big donation to Maga Super Pac. He used tactics similar to the pro -bono legal compressor from law firms.

Colleges and universities also benefit from the H-1B program to attract the best talents for the professor, especially for nursing and medical programs. Harvard, who was wandering with publicly in 2025, has approximately 280 workers in his books in his books, and Columbia University has more than 200. Now the White House can threaten foreign -born professors and researchers as well as financing them.

This is the chaos of the tariff again. Trump has been attached to the threat of 100 percent customs tariffs on chips, only to grant exemptions to companies that gave him a victory in public relations by pledging even small investment in manufacturing in the United States. For all the White House talk about the national security concerns surrounding the artificial intelligence fires in NVIDIA, a few kicks of the government appear enough to disappear these concerns.

And the vulnerability reduces the potential benefits of anyone Do We believe that H-1B restrictions will help American workers-because once Trump gets what he wants from an industry, he can simply exempt him.

Just like definitions, and like everything else the Trump administration does, the new visa restrictions are transactions tools. If this happens to reduce the number of jobs that go to foreign workers, the president can describe it as winning. But if the patterns of last year have withstood, it is likely to satisfy more satisfaction in universities and technology companies that modest themselves in exchange for pass.