As the world’s richest man Elon Musk likes to point out, he is a former holder of an H-1B skilled foreign worker visa for the US. So are Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai, the Alphabet chief executive. Together these individuals run or have founded trillion-dollar businesses that have made a major contribution to US jobs and prosperity; a great American strength has long been its openness to foreign-born talent. All of which makes the Trump administration’s plan to impose a $100,000 fee for such a visa especially ill-conceived.
正如全球首富埃隆?馬斯克(Elon Musk)常強調的那樣，他曾持有赴美就業的H-1B技術類外籍員工簽證。微軟(Microsoft)首席執行官薩蒂亞?納德拉(Satya Nadella)以及谷歌首席執行官桑達爾?皮查伊(Sundar Pichai)亦然。以上人士所領導或創辦的公司市值以萬億美元計，為美國就業與繁榮作出了重大貢獻；美國的一大優勢歷來在于對海外人才的包容與開放。正因如此，特朗普政府計劃對這類簽證征收10萬美元申請費，尤顯欠妥。