Trump Charges $100K Visa Fee to Blockhead Tech Growth
President Trumpâs latest brainwave is turning Americaâs H-1B visa into the Da Vinci Code of immigration: a $100,000 fee â up from a modest $2,500 â thatâs less "welcome to the USA" and more "buy your way through the yellow brick wall." Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick moonlights as a motivational speaker for American workers, declaring, 'If youâre going to train people, youâre going to train Americans,' effectively telling tech firms to stop outsourcing and start babysitting. Meanwhile, the baby boomers retire faster than TikTok trends, immigration drops from an expected 2 million to a demoralizing 400,000 this year, and job growth limps at a glacier's pace of 27,000 monthly jobs. Trumponomics sums up as: 'Make America Build Stuff, Just Donât Ask Where the Workers Come From.'
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Trump slaps a $100K H-1B visa fee and says, 'Train Americans!' while wondering why factories look like ghost towns and AI labs hire tumbleweeds. Spoiler: You canât have booming tech if nobodyâs allowed in.
Raising H-1B fees from $2,500 to $100,000 makes as much sense as buying a Tesla just to run it on coal. America wants tech growth, minus the workers â good luck picking grapes with empty hands.
Trumpâs economic plan: Demand more stuff built here but outsource the actual workers to Neverland. Watching job growth stall while baby boomers retire is just natureâs way of saying, 'you broke it, you bought it.'
Source: Axios | Published: 9/22/2025 | Author: Neil Irwin
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