A former Meta techie, founder Zach Wilson, said he felt proud to be an American after a federal court struck down the $100,000 fee imposed by the Donald Trump administration on the import of H-1B visa holders. Wilson said it was depressing the last six months when his Indian students asked "how do I get a data engineering job in the US?" "And my answer basically, 'you don't because of Trump," he wrote in an X post.
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"These visa fees were another reason I had to visit Bangalore and Hyderabad this year. Because if we can’t bring the brains to America, the brains will continue building amazing things in India. And the phenomenal entrepreneurs and engineers I met in India were incredible. The world is balancing out," the former Netflix engineer said.
"It’s amazing to see America still has its checks and balances necessary to keep it being a land of immigrants and new ideas! Today is one of the few days in a very long time that I say I’m proud to be an American and that my government is doing something right," Wilson said.
