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H-1B visas are important: they are the route to getting highly skilled foreign nationals to work in the US. (AI image) H-1B visas, on which the Donald Trump administration is imposing increasing restrictions, are actually beneficial for the US economy and unlike some people who claim that they constitute ‘cheap labour’, evidence seems to suggest…
When the H-1B visa curbs tightened, the American Dream didn’t just flicker; it shattered, shrank, and crumbled for thousands of Indian professionals. Yet, the louder noise reverberated through the corridors: Would the tremors in Washington rattle India’s dreams, its pipeline, or its economy? Fortunately, the early signals said otherwise.At a metro station outside the Indian…
WASHINGTON: MAGA supremo Donald Trump on Friday unloaded on a one-time loyalist lawmaker after she broke ranks and mutinied on a range of issues, including moving a bill to nix the H1b visa program. In growing signs of major fissures and brewing rebellion in the MAGA movement, Republican Congresswoman and conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene,…
Donald Trump has withdrawn his endorsement of Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, saying she recently spoke out against parts of his agenda. In a long post on Truth Social, Trump announced his decision saying “all I see “Wacky” Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!”. The post comes after Greene said that she is introducing a…
DHS secretary Kristi Noem insists process for Green Cards and H-1B visas sped up under Trump administration, but applicants must follow these three rules Kristi Noem, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said that the Trump administration has sped up the process of visa and green card approvals. Speaking at a recent interview with…
Marjorie Taylor Greene (PTI) The TOI correspondent from Washington: Tapping into the MAGA base’s disaffection with the job market, rebellious Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG), who is already on a warpath with President Trump on various issues, announced on Thursday she will introduce legislation to aggressively phase out the H-1B visa program, which she…
YouTuber Oliveira who made a documentary on India’s cow-dung festival calls for abolition of H-1B. American YouTuber Tyler Oliveira, who spread Indian hatred through his documentary on the cow dung festival that he misrepresented as a ‘poop-throwing festival’, weighed in on the H-1B row and rubbished the narrative that America does not have enough talent….
Representational AI image The TOI correspondent from Washington: “Train Americans and go home” will be the new mantra of the Trump administration with regards to foreign guest worker visa programs like H-1B. Scrambling to finesse resident Trump’s comment that America lacks “certain talents” for critical jobs following a meltdown in the MAGA base that views…
When Ingraham noted that “we have plenty of talent”, Trump said, “No, you don’t, no you don’t. You don’t have certain talents. And people have to learn The Donald Trump administration is repositioning the H-1B visa program to bring in skilled foreign workers on a temporary basis to train Americans for high-tech roles, Treasury Secretary…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday explained President Donald Trump’s new approach to the H-1B visa programme, saying it is designed to bring skilled foreign workers to the United States temporarily — not to replace American jobs.Bessent told Fox News that Trump’s plan of bringing in skilled foreign workers focuses on knowledge transfer rather than…
