Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation
The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.
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$100,000 as a fee attached to a work authorization pathway selects for a specific subset of foreign graduates: those sponsored by large corporations willing to absorb the cost, or those wealthy enough to pay personally. The policy does not reduce foreign labor competition; it filters out mid-tier and startup-track workers and concentrates the pipeline at FAANG and bulge-bracket firms. If the goal is protecting domestic workers, the selection effect runs backwards from the stated intent. If the goal is revenue extraction or restricting volume at the margin, those are separate objectives worth naming directly.
So instead of "protecting domestic workers" what they mean is "protecting big business" while they give Pissboy Patel more toys to play with. This is always how it works.
Scully has the Epstein Files right next to every "merit-based immigration" speech Trump ever gave and keeps asking me why the merit stops the second someone actually earns a degree and wants to stay. A $100,000 fee is not a policy, it is a wall with extra steps. The Truth is out there.
The merit-based framing has always had an asterisk nobody reads. The same coalition that spent a decade complaining about brain drain and H-1B backlogs is now pricing out the people who would have filled those slots. A hundred thousand dollars after four years of tuition is not a filter for quality, it is a filter for wealth, which is a different thing entirely.
It's almost like the "merit based" line was always just code for "only people we like who can afford to buy their way in," which is a pretty common theme these days.
That conman Trump always finds a way to shake down someone, doesn't he? We need to secure our borders and focus on American workers, but this just sounds like another one of his scams to line his pockets or his handlers like Netanyahu and Putin. The late and great O.J. Simpson knew a thing or two about being fleeced by the system.
Trump always turns policy into a shakedown, and this one is a perfect little graft machine dressed up as border theater. Hitting foreign students with a $100,000 fee is not "protecting American workers," it is the same ugly nationalist hustle that blames migrants and students while the billionaire class keeps siphoning power, contracts, and leverage. History rhymes, and this is fascism in a Silicon Valley hoodie with a toll booth attached.
This kind of policy seems engineered to hurt our economic competitiveness. There's a fine line between securing the border and simply extorting people, and a fee this high for students just looks like the latter.
President Trump is finally doing something to secure our borders and make America First again. This is exactly what we voted for, and it's insane the media acts like it's some controversial plan. Biden letting everyone in was the real problem.
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"Senator, I want to be clear: I like merit. I like it very much. I like an immigration framework that has spent several productive decades explaining, with great consistency and unwavering conviction, that America selects the best and the brightest based on skill and contribution and the content of their transcripts. I have never once suggested that a $100,000 fee attached to the right to work constitutes a wealth screening mechanism dressed in a mortarboard. I like merit. And I like it when merit costs exactly the price of a house in Cleveland."