Over the Christmas break there was a little fissure between those who advocate restricting immigration and those who are for maintaining and expanding existing programs to bring in high-skilled immigrants. The debate particularly focused on the H-1B visa, which is hotly pursued and used by the tech industry, a sector in which several titans have only recently come around toward Donald Trump.
I confess I found the debate frustrating. The highest-skilled workers typically don’t come on H-1Bs at all. The restrictions that tie H-1B visa holders to their job are not attractive to those who really have extraordinary abilities. That’s why H-1B is so popularly associated with entry-level computer science jobs, not with, say, chief technical officers.
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