The H-1B Visa Fiasco Is Accelerating America’s Decline

Trump’s new $100,000 fee for high-skilled workers is another nail in the coffin for U.S. prosperity.

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Trump’s Second Term

Ongoing reports and analysis

During his first campaign for the presidency, in 2015, now-President Donald Trump rose to become a dominant figure in U.S. politics by turning repeatedly to a jeremiad against migration.

The people he had in mind, though, were not generic migrants. They were predominantly brown-skinned people from Latin America whom he often portrayed as patients from “ insane asylums ” or rapists and other dangerous convicts who were loosed on the world by

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