The Donald Trump administration has issued a new mandate concerning the H1-B visa that will require companies hiring through that visa category to pay $100,000 to sponsor each employee. Reports trickling in from the tech industry and legal community are already crying foul.
One of the most unprecedented sequences of events about the second Trump administration is that he somehow ended up winning over Silicon Valley. California in general was one of the most anti-Trump regions of the country, and tech in particular has always been progressive. It was quite a shock when Elon Musk put his financial weight behind Trump — but rather quickly, he was perhaps the first example to show that Trump will eventually fall out with members from that particular industry.
