> elon needs sectioning and put under assessment. i agree. if trump refuses to say elon and vivek fucked up, then we have a problem. but so far, it appears nobody has even shown them to him. although that one ts post where he mentions gates does seem to have a veiled message in it.   > remind me again what what happened in 2020 and why the submission of h1b visas might be dropped? the drop in refusals began in 2019, according to your chart, and the drop in refusals isn't mirrored in the approvals, so no, covid didn't begin in 2019. nice try at gaslighting, though. > and it doesnt matter. in the two years and 308 days that donald trump has been president, his administration has constructed far more effective barriers to immigration. no new laws have actually been passed. this transformation has mostly come about through subtle administrative shiftsa phrase that vanishes from an internal manual, a form that gets longer, an unannounced revision to a website, a memo, a footnote in a memo. among immigration lawyers, the cumulative effect of these procedural changes is known as the invisible wall. > in the two years after trump took office, denials for h1bs, the most common form of visa for skilled workers, more than doubled. in the same period, wait times for citizenship also doubled, while average processing times for all kinds of visas jumped by 46 percent, even as the quantity of applications went down. in 2018, the united states added just 200,000 immigrants to the population, a startling 70 percent less than the year before.   like i said, you don't want to explore why the refusals went down without approvals matching the decline.
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