Michelle Hackman
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And suddenly, Stephen Miller's the one in charge.
He's allowed to do what he wants.
And totally out of nowhere, we get this announcement that they're attaching a $100,000 fee to the H-1B visa.
They explicitly say that that is meant to almost shut down the program, that they don't expect a lot of people to pay.
So I think it's really interesting, and it doesn't totally make sense.
You know, Trump hires these people who have these strident interests
They're zealous in their opinions.
But from everything we've seen from Trump, he actually doesn't totally believe it himself.
This was a raid on a Hyundai plant that was making electric cars.
And those people were not on H-1B visas, but I think the themes are similar, right?
That raid, you know, was planned by ICE.
Trump didn't know about it.
They had planned to go in and actually hunt for, you know, Latino construction workers.
And in the end, ended up arresting 175 Korean workers who, you know, not all, but typically were working in sort of higher skilled jobs.
And he, I mean, basically like went out and disparaged the work of ICE.
He was like, that raid shouldn't have happened.
I don't know why they did it.
You can't just say a country's coming in, going to invest $10 billion to build a plant and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven't worked in five years and they're going to start making missiles.
It doesn't work that way.