Hiring of high-skilled foreign graduates of US colleges will likely run into new hurdles under a second term for Donald J. Trump, who for months attacked immigrant communities and promised mass deportation for undocumented immigrants.
His election victory will potentially mean new restrictions on the legal immigration system that rarely featured in campaign discourse, but is essential for many employers to find high-demand workers in industries like tech and engineering.
International college graduates pursuing H-1B visas and workers seeking employment-based green cards can expect the process “to be more bureaucratic, more delayed, with more requirements imposed—the same as we saw ...