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Shortly after President Donald Trump’s electoral victory in November, the coalition that returned him to power began tearing itself apart over a once esoteric issue: the H-1B visa . As the foundation of a temporary-guest program that brought highly skilled foreign-born workers into the United States—overwhelmingly, though not exclusively, tech engineers from India —the H-1B had become the most visible symbol of an intensifying ideological rift. On one side, the Silicon Valley executives who’d newly embraced Trump, advised his transition, and ran companies that depend on this immigrant labor; on the other side, the racist MAGA base that wanted to slow down

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