The Trump administration said on Friday it would ask companies to pay $100,000 per year for H-1B worker visas, prompting some big tech companies to warn visa holders to stay in the U.S. or quickly return.

The change could deal a big blow to the technology sector that relies heavily on skilled workers from India and China.

Since taking office in January, Trump has kicked off a wide-ranging immigration crackdown, including moves to limit some forms of legal immigration. The step to reshape the H-1B visa program represents his administration’s most high-profile effort yet to rework temporary employment visas.

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    2 days ago

    The US will lose its programming edge over the rest of the world but yeah the HB1 visa program was designed to exploit people. This won’t fix it though.

    The proper thing to do would be to fix the program to force median or above wage pay and limit visas for saturated positions.