Easily fixed by raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H1B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2024
I’ve been very clear that the program is broken and needs major reform.
Trump just killed the H1B visa.
— Zakka Jacob (@Zakka_Jacob) September 20, 2025
Companies now have to pay $100K per year to bring foreign hi-skilled workers to the U.S.
This will dissuade them from doing so, some jobs will be offshored.
For Indian techies, the American dream just got killed. pic.twitter.com/j2Lx10ThPE
Wait until she gets to the "You have to renew your H1B visa at the original issuing consulate" part.
— Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD (@TonerousHyus) September 20, 2025
I read that far 2 hours ago. *****bKMFmQduEe
The H1B program was sold as bringing geniuses from Tokyo and Munich.
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) August 18, 2025
Instead, we got millions of discount coders while Americans who *did* learn to code can’t find a job.
Trump wants to fix it. pic.twitter.com/9DRG5GTEYt
