Silicon Valley firms could start protecting immigrant employees by moving them to Canada
If the talent can't stay in the US, Silicon Valley has a backup option: Create a safe haven up north. On January 30, White House press secretary Sean Spicer confirmed that administration officials had drafted an executive order to transform how foreign-born workers find US jobs. The order, whose details have yet to be released, would be a transformation of the H-1B work-visa program. H-1B visas allow roughly 85,000 highly skilled immigrant workers to take jobs in the US each year. Many companies rely on the program to recruit stronger talent than they can find within America's borders. And any changes meant to favor American-born workers could mean less access to that talent in the future. A
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