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While smashing 38 billion borders, 770,000 people are wandering? Trump suddenly issued an "eviction order": stopping all illegal immigration assistance, smashing 38 billion yuan to strictly control the southern border, and raising the H-1B visa fee to $100,000. On the other hand, California smashed 24 billion homeless people, but there was no harvest. Last year, 783 immigrants died tragically on the US-Mexico border. The American Chamber of Commerce sued angrily, and the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was eager to protest. While "America first" blocks the door, while one's own people's livelihood is ruined, what is this wave of operation?
The border iron arm: 38 billion crashed, but the number of immigrant deaths increased
In September, the Southern border was announced as a state of emergency, with $38 billion of control funds following, saying it was to “block the door” of illegal immigration, even before the basic assistance to immigrants was cut off a knife. But the money was spent, the problem was not solved. In 2023, 783 migrants died at the border with Mexico, much higher than in 2020. Most of these were hoping to cross the desert, rivers, resulting in either starving to die of hunger or buried in the flood. There were border patrols who revealed that they could now receive dozens of rescue signals a day, but the aid stopped, and many did not wait for rescue.
Trump always said "America is the first", but the priority is to crush money and not solve the problem. The mayor of the border city of El Paso whispered: "38 billion spent on the iron grid and patrol cars, but no penny for building a temporary rescue station, it is not governance, it is creating a humanitarian crisis."
Visa Storm: $100,000 to "buy" jobs, India and technology circles are blown up
On September 19, Trump signed an announcement that the H-1B visa application fee would go from thousands of dollars directly to $100,000 a year, saying it would be “only for really highly skilled people”. But this change, first blown up by Indian and U.S. technology companies. Why India? Because 71% of U.S. H-1B visas are all issued to Indians, it is equivalent to going directly to the Indian technology group. The Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs rushed to say that this policy would disrupt Indian families and cause “humanitarian consequences”, and the U.S. Embassy also specifically announced emergency assistance calls. There are Indian engineers working in Silicon Valley saying: “The company can’t spend 100,000 for everyone, either to be sentenced, or only to return home.”
Technology giants have even more headaches. In the first three quarters of fiscal year 2025, Amazon alone obtained more than 14000 H-1B visas, and Microsoft and Meta each received more than 5000 H-1B visas. Now that each newcomer spends an extra 100,000 yuan, the labor cost has soared directly. Small businesses are even worse. The owner of a startup in San Francisco calculated: "I originally wanted to hire two Indian programmers, but now the visa fee is enough to pay for a year's salary. I have to move the team to Canada."
Internal and external troubles: California's 24 billion yuan has been wasted, and the American Chamber of Commerce directly sues
It is tough to the outside world, but no one cares about America's own "mess". California accounts for more than half of the 770,000 homeless people in the country. Before that, the state government spent $24 billion on governance, but it was useless. In the slums of Los Angeles, tents are still densely lined up, and drug abuse and hygiene problems are more serious than before. Some Californians spit out: "The government would rather spend 38 billion on the border than build more shelters for homeless people. Where is the 24 billion spent? No one can tell clearly." More ironically, California's technology companies are still worried about the visa policy. On the one hand, talents can't get in, and on the other hand, locals live on the streets. The policy is completely twisted.
On October 16, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce directed the Trump administration to court, saying that the $100,000 visa fee violated the Immigration and Nationality Law, and it was not lawful at all. To know this was the first time since Trump was re-elected, the Chamber of Commerce prosecuted him. On October 3, the Automobile Workers’ Federation of these agencies had previously announced a wave, calling for a stop to the new policy. Neil Bradley of the Chamber of Commerce said the truth: “The H-1B was determined by the Congress, was to help find talent, now it became the threshold of the sky, startups were killed.”
Political Mistake: “America Priority” Who Is Priority?
In fact, Trump's policy is still around "America's priority", but it turns more and more. He wants to protect domestic interests by blocking borders, raising visa fees, but the actual effect is all the opposite. The border broke money, the humanitarian crisis is even heavier; visa fees have risen, and technology companies are either rising costs or moving abroad, instead of letting Americans lose their jobs.
There are also longer-term impacts. Research shows that foreign STEM talents have contributed 30% to 50% of the productivity growth of the United States in recent decades. Now that the talent threshold is raised so high, innovation will definitely be affected. As a major talent player in the U.S. science and technology industry, India has been targeted this time, and scientific and technological cooperation between the two countries has also been suspended.
The court has not yet ruled, but no matter what the outcome is, this wave of policies has exposed the problem: they only care about "blocking" and "limiting" but do not think about how to "balance". The United States 'priority is not to "only care about itself and ignore others", nor to "lose the watermelon and pick up the sesame seeds." 38 billion in border fees, 100,000 visa fees, and 24 billion in water control fees. Behind these figures are the livelihoods of countless people and the development direction of the United States. Is Trump's move helping the United States or deceiving the United States? I guess we can only wait for time to give the answer.
Source of information
U.S. Chamber of Commerce sues Trump administration to raise H-1B visa fee to $100,000
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