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Meet the foreign tech workers left in limbo by Trump moves

Some visa holders have been in America for so long that they cannot imagine living elsewhere

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Deanne Fitzmaurice & Katie Benner | NYT
At dawn in California’s Bay Area, the river of commuters begins to flow. It is filled with the people who help make our smartphones, our favourite games, the apps we download.

But many have also come to make something else, perhaps — a new life in America.

These are just a few of the 85,000 people who come to work at American companies from as far away as India and China on H-1B visas, which are granted to highly skilled workers from overseas. Many, like Kaushik Gopal, land jobs at technology firms that have struggled to find enough American citizens