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Cringley discussed the L-1B issue on Feb 6: http://www.cringely.com/2017/02/06/trumps-upcoming-move-h-1b...
L-1B suppresses wages more than H-1B because it is not transferable. Not getting any raises? Only option is to go back home or accept it.
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The education correlation is also supported actual voting results, by seeing how voting results correlated with education levels in each voting region. So it doesn't seem to be just an artifact of polling behavior.
But would an educated Trump voter in California or New York bother coming out to vote?
I'm sure Trump would like SV to form a movement behind this, much like the inroads he's trying to make with various tech leaders. It's just not as simple as looking at one type of worker and calling it a day.
Any changes to such a policy would need to be properly vetted across all industries.
What about non-tech workers that come to the US through an H1-B? Scientists come to mind. If you don't have a PhD, your starting salary isn't going to exceed $100K. Are they just out of luck?
There's already a good number of US-citizen PhDs in non-CS/"tech" fields who are being underutilized. Perhaps such moves will help prioritize them and adjust some of the supply/demand issues.