特朗普政府对H-1B签证征收10万美元费用，引发科技行业反应

"...raising the question of how much return those companies are getting on that ongoing investment...."

"...It's a steep and dramatic overhaul for a program that many large companies have used to hire thousands of software engineers and other highly-specialized workers...."

"...The H-1B program is popular among businesses — but critiqued across the political spectrum..."

"...The White House says that these U.S. employers have abused and "deliberately exploited" the H-1B visa program to "replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor," Trump's executive order declared...."

"...Similar critiques have long been raised by labor economists and politicians across the political spectrum, including Senators Bernie Sanders (I.-Vt.) and Eric Schmitt (R.-Mo.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D.-Calif.)...."

"...A 2020 study by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that most H-1B employers do pay migrant workers less than market rate salaries...."

"..."The program exploits workers," says Ron Hira, a Howard University political science professor who studies high-skilled immigration and who has testified before Congress calling for an overhaul of the H-1B visa program...."

"...Hira on Saturday cautiously praised Trump's executive order. "In a lot of ways, this effort, directionally at least, is in the right direction. It's long overdue," he said...."

"...But some immigration-focused groups blasted the president's changes to the H-1B program. "This policy shrinks our talent pipeline, undermines job creation, and hands America's competitive edge to global rivals," the American Immigration Council, a nonprofit affiliated with an association of immigration lawyers, wrote on Bluesky...."

"...Big Tech companies, and their billionaire founders, have spent this year trying to woo Trump..."

"...Whatever the ultimate impact on workers, Trump's steep new fee for H-1B visas is a slap in the face for the tech industry, which hires thousands of foreign-born workers every year...."

"...Tesla, the electric carmaker run by onetime Trump ally Elon Musk, also heavily uses the H-1B program (and has been accused in a lawsuit of using it to underpay workers)...."

"...Musk and Trump publicly fell out this spring...."

"...Now Trump's steep new fees on the H-1B visa program highlights the extent to which other tech companies — and the billionaires who run them — are also failing in their ongoing efforts to curry favor with the president...."

"...The founders and CEOs of almost all of the top H-1B sponsors have assiduously courted Trump in his second term...."

"...They've attended his inauguration, donated money to his inaugural fund, tried to stave off his tariffs by promising to invest billions of dollars in the United States and, earlier this month, many went back to the White House to attend a dinner with Trump...."