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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Callum Jones in New York

Trouble in Trumpworld over H-1B visas makes for strange bedfellows

Immigration passport control entry point queue for non US citizens at San Francisco airport
Bernie Sanders argues the main function of the H-1B visa program is to ‘replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad’. Photograph: Ian Shaw/Alamy

Steve Bannon, one of the architects of Trumpism, is one the most influential voices on the right. Bernie Sanders, the veteran US senator from Vermont, is among the leading figures on the progressive left. In these divided times, they have found common ground.

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, a bitter row over H-1B visas – designed to bring skilled foreign workers to the US – has exposed the delicate threads that tie together his broad coalition – and that of the Democrats.

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