Zanny Minton-Beddoes

whereas in fact they can and should give those jobs to Americans.

And by raising the price of H-1Bs, we're encouraging companies only to apply for those if there is a really high-skilled person that they need from abroad.

At some level, there is an economic logic that says you should create a market and pay a price for these visas.

But I don't actually think that's really what's motivating this.

I think that there are a number of people in the administration –

who are just migration restrictionists and who just don't want foreigners.

And it's for that reason that I think it's a dangerous direction to go in.

And for us in Europe, you know, this is a tremendous opportunity.

I'm not at all sure that European governments will grab it, but Europe has a huge number of highly skilled people

particularly in areas like AI.

And many of these people have been going for years now to the United States because that's where a lot of the opportunities were.

Well, if the United States doesn't want high skilled foreigners any longer, then they are coming back to Europe, which is a huge problem.

influx of talent potentially for Europe.

I think that's absolutely right.

And I think that's, you know, that is true in the medical area.

It's true in the high tech area.

It's true in lots of areas.

Oh, and I should also mention caregivers.

So many caregivers are foreign born.

And the United States has always been.