According to Elon Musk, making H-1B hiring more expensive will bring reforms in the visa program. This is just the opposite of the present situation. Once hiring foreign workers becomes more expensive for companies than hiring Americans, they will only hire the top talents and won't fill posts with cheap labor.
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