The former powerful Esther Crawford took social media on Monday to take the H-1B engineers’ post, mostly from India and China, maintaining “Twitter/X” alive after the social media platform took over technical billionaire Elon Musk.
Crawford hit the rhetoric of anti-immigrants on X and said that the platform itself survived because of H-1B engineers, many from India and China, tirelessly worked during the period of receipt of society.
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She said they worked for hours during critical times.
According to the press agency, Crawford worked as a product management director during the receipt and rebranding of the company like X.
“Twitter/X survived because of H-1B engineers, mostly from India and China. They stayed after acquisition, worked for hours and solved brutally complex problems with American colleagues. Remember when publishing against immigrants: They are the reason you can tweet at all,” she wrote on X.
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H-1B Visa New Rules
Esther Crawford’s notes came after US President Donald Trump signed a statement of H-1B 19. September, imposing a fee of $ 100,000 on new applications for H-1B visa.
The US Foreign Ministry on Sunday (local time) issued an clarification at Trump’s command and revealed many false claims that have orbited H1-B visa rules.
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The Foreign Ministry emphasized that the new H-1B rules’ do not apply to any previously issued H-1B visa or any proposals submitted before 12:01 in the morning of East Light 21 September 2025. “
It also explained that the new fees requirement only applies to individuals or companies that, after 21 September, submit new petitions or enter the lottery system. Current holders and visa applications submitted before this date remain intact.
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What is the US H-1B program?
The H-1B program allows us to hire foreign workers in special areas such as technology and engineering, and higher fees are at risk of increasing the cost of technology companies that depend strongly on this talent pipeline.
More than 70% of these visas went to Indian nationals last year, showed US data. During the first term of Trump’s administration, the Trump administration tightened the approval of visas and increased the control of applications, movements that drew litigation from industrial groups.
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Amazon, Google Parent Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft are consistently one of the best H-1B visa sponsors, data shows, underlining their dependence on foreign engineers and developers to support growth in areas such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
How will Trump’s decision affect?
Trump Administration proposed a $ 100,000 fee for the new H-1B visa that technical companies widely used to rent foreign talents could turn into a sector that relies strongly on qualified workers from India and China.
Analysts told Reuters that the impact should be mild, as fees only apply to new applications, but warned that the limited offer of qualified US workers can push higher wages and press margins.
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Bernstein analysts said: “From an industrial point of view, a huge increase in fees for H-1B visa can increase pressure to hire local resources in our opinion.”
They said it would also speed up the use of generative AI/agent AI to limit the potential increase in salary due to lack of IT resources. We expect technology providers to actively lobby US administration to soften the impact. ”
Some even said that by being very expensive to attract foreign talents for companies, and by forceing some foreign students to leave the country after graduation, “brain drain will weigh productivity.”
(With the entry from agencies)
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