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The Fallout in Silicon Valley Over Trump’s $100,000 H1-B Visa Fee

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Google's Bay View campus in Mountain View on June 16, 2022. (Zhang Yi/VCG via Getty Images)

Last month, the Trump Administration announced a new $100,000 fee on H1-B visa applications. The news hit workers and employers in Silicon Valley especially hard as the tech industry relies heavily on H1-B visa holders. In this episode from our friends at Political Breakdown, Scott Schafer and Marisa Lagos sit down with Zeyi Yang, a senior writer at WIRED to discuss the fallout from the announcement and what this means for workers and employers going forward. 


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