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Citing a 13 percent unemployment rate in the US, President Donald Trump has curtailed certain immigration visas through the end of the year in a sweeping executive order that will affect hundreds of thousands of potential employees looking to work in the United States.
In addition to extending an existing ban on new green card holders, the largest target of the order is the H-1B visa, used by universities and tech firms to hire skilled workers and researchers from other countries. The United States issued more than 188,000 H-1Bs in 2019, according to Nature. Together, the collective restrictions detailed in the order could block as many as 525,000 potential workers from coming to the US.
A recent report from the National Science Foundation found that 30 percent of science and engineering jobs in the United States were held by foreigners.
Trump’s order prompted criticism by ...
