JD Vance’s visa crackdown will sabotage America’s future

Vice President JD Vance has launched a pair of actions targeting the pipeline of foreign talent into American institutions, and MS NOW commentator Kaivan Shroff argues they will damage the country's competitive position. Vance announced investigations into Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, MIT and other universities, saying they bring in foreigners to undercut American wages. He also suspended Microsoft and Adobe from the H-1B visa program and said earlier this month that he would favor ending the visa altogether.

Shroff contends the policy ignores how the country built its lead. He cites foreign graduate students as the force behind 24% of American billion-dollar companies, and points to Moderna, started by MIT international Ph. D. student Noubar Afeyan and now employing over 4,400 people in Massachusetts. He notes that President Donald Trump has said the country needs outside expertise, and that Elon Musk first arrived on a student exchange visa before moving to an H-1B.

The larger risk, Shroff writes, is the contest with China over artificial intelligence, where Beijing has responded by creating visa programs meant to attract the talent America turns away.

Summarized by PolitiKool from MS NOW’s reporting. Read the full story at MS NOW →