How do you feel about the Trump admin’s move to implement a one-time $100,000 fee for all new H-1B visas moving forward?

Support (34%) – "The job market is tight right now. Many of our own students are graduating college, only to find that the competition for positions is high. This will put American workers first, and make importing cheap labor much more difficult for companies. When we import cheap labor, the only winners are corporations."

• "Corporations used the program to replace American workers with cheap low skilled foreign workers. This will make it less profitable to continue this practice. This fee will help ensure that the program is used as intended - to bring in highly skilled workers that have special knowledge that isn’t readily available domestically."

"I couldn't be more supportive of this action to make H-1B's harder to obtain. India and China have sent us over a million of these cheap technical workers, made possible by the policies of Clinton, Obama and Biden, each of which lowered the bar to entry and enabled them to come to the USA and take high paying American tech jobs. I'm in the IT industry myself, and over the past 20 years or so my wages were halved, then halved again. US IT workers can't compete with Indians willing to take 1/4 of what we used to make here for the same work. The other thing US companies are doing is using IT workers offshore (i.e., in India mostly) to complete technical work. Virtually every company I've contracted with in the past 10 years or so uses these offshore resources. And they're paying those people a fraction of what a USA tech would get. And those offshore resources are not paying taxes in the USA. And I rather doubt they're paying taxes in India either. And frankly, they do sub-par work that I usually have to waste a lot of time cleaning up. What this has done to American tech workers is shameful and a betrayal by our government under the Democrats of the American worker. In effect they sold us out to appease Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Just another thing Trump is trying to straiten out! Kudos!!"

Oppose (42%) – "You can’t tell me that stifling the exchange of ideas and talent in the workplace is making America great. Why do we want capable and educated people contributing to the economies of other countries instead of our own?"

• "The H-1B visa program is necessary - the company I work for has hired a few employees when we needed a special skill set and weren't finding qualified applicants domestically. But it's true that it is sometimes abused / used to hire for less money than an American worker would command. But $100,000 will kill the program; no company is going to pay that. I don't disagree with making it more difficult to access the program and maybe charging more than the current."

"Although H1B visas are used by tech companies for highly skilled workers, they are also used by foreign medical graduates after they finish residency training in the United States to remain in the country. To change from the J-1 visa which the doctor needed during residency to the H1B visa, the doctor normally agrees to work in an underserved area in the US to get a waiver of the requirement to go back to their country of origin for 2 years. There is no way hospital systems or individual doctors can afford $100,000 per doctor. Given the shortage of primary care doctors in the US and a medical school and residency program system that is not designed to produce a sufficient number of doctors, foreign doctors fill a very important role. And given that the government regulates the number of residency program slots and is doing nothing to increase them, the doctor shortage in the US will get significantly worse directly due to this presidential action."

• "We need these talented minds to contribute to the country's improvements and technological growth. Our home-grown talent is not enough. Why wouldn't we want the best and the brightest to be employed by US firms?"

Unsure/other (24%) – "I do like the idea of keeping jobs in America. I wonder of the unintended consequences of such a fee. Would this encourage companies to open branches in other countries where they can hire people from that country and not pay the fee? Would that just eliminate those positions entirely and then the US loses the taxes they would pay? Or do certain companies just close down departments that are now too expensive to maintain and too specialized to acquire locally? Or are all my questions just me playing the part of Chicken Little? It will take time to find out and the ability to reverse direction may be too costly."

• "Yes, the visa program is being abused, but I don't think the $100k is going to create US jobs. The use of foreign labor in IT also happens through outsourcing and captive centers in other countries. It seems logical that if you make it expensive for one form of staffing, companies will just shift. And outsourcing moves not only the job but the talent out of the country - that's bad for long-term growth and to maintain leadership in technology."