Many Silicon valley companies opposed Trump’s immigration order immediately a week after it was implemented because the US innovation economy relies heavily on foreign talent. Also, it make it more difficult for US companies to continue with their day to day business operations and to recruit, hire and retain the world’s best employees.
Main Intention:- So far since Trump was elected, four bills related to reforming the visa programs have been presented to the Congress. This has caused a huge concern among the Tech community since they feel these bills could be a stepping stone to a huge change in the entire legal immigration system. The four bills are:
Understanding the viz :- The below visualization is first broken by Visa holders and Green card holders and further partitioned by the type of the worker visa. Let’s direct our attention to the worker visa section which has a total of 807,212 visas. Workers with these types of visas take a lower salary in comparison with American workers which thereby implies drop in American worker wages.
One of the above bills proposes to raise the salary cap for obtaining a H1-B visa to 100k per year. Another bill proposes to curb the replacement of American skilled workers with cheap H1-B or L-1 workers.
As we can clearly see from the below plot on green cards, only 14% is employment based whereas a huge 33% belongs to spouses or children of green card holders working in US. These green card holders could potentially compete for US citizen jobs.
Critiquing the visualization:-
- For the bigger box chart on Visas, a better representation could be to use percentage instead of total number of visa holders of each type.
- Also, when the main focus is on employment visas it can be highlighted better with a different color that catches the attention of the audience (“Eye beats memory”).
- The segmentation of the different types under employment visa again can be shown more clearly using a better tool tip.
KPI :–
- Number of visa issued in 2015
- Number of green card holders in 2015
Argument:-
Why does US need these foreign workers?
They are talented, skilled and top class competitive workers. Their expertise and labor is beneficial for the economy which raises the standard of living for Americans. This helps US compete more effectively on a global scale.
Reference: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/visas-impact/