They come up with these rules on a Saturday morning. If you’re a visa holder outside the country and you don’t return to the US by Sunday, you’ll be asked to pay a $100k ransom to re-enter the country where your life and work and children are.

Amazing level of contempt for ordinary foreigners who came into the country legally.

The inhumanity aside, the economy-related quotes from Lutnick and Trump are typically laughable. It’s hard to believe these guys are in charge:

“[Lutnick] added that the revised program would filter out the ‘bottom quartile’ while generating more than $100 billion for the US Treasury. Trump further said that the revenue would be used to reduce national debt and lower taxes.”

The US has a multi-trillion-dollar deficit. Even if they could somehow get a million H1B holders paying this huge sum, the income wouldn’t reduce the national debt because you’re still running a big deficit. It would just slightly slow the current growth of the deficit.