By “skilled immigrants” I mean people with advance degrees (PhD, MD, …) holding all types of highly technical and managerial positions.
Asking this because skilled immigrants, at least in theory:
- knows, and has first-hand experience of how much bullshit one has to go through to immigrate,
- has enough bargaining power to move to another immigration-friendly country,
- let’s just say that the upcoming US policies don’t seem to be friendly to any immigrants at all…
But then US tech and research are supported largely by the same skilled immigrants. So I’m curious how that is supposed to play out…
Sorry this is a bit of a strange question.
P.S.: I’m… not asking for a friend. I’ve been constantly worried for the past two weeks; I try not to rush to conclusions, so the fact that I’m still worried concerns me. Double quotation marks because in the US it’s literally the same government agency that manages all immigrants no matter how they got in the country (highly skilled worker, family of citizen, asylum, literally just crossed the border, …)
I don’t expect anything catastrophic to happen so suddenly that I won’t have time to flee.
Everyone I know is here, including people who depend on me.
I don’t want to learn another language.
I feel a lot less connected to the USA than I did before, but I don’t feel more connected to any other country than I do to the USA. The one my family and I came from is a huge mess and I certainly don’t want to return to it.
I’m taking the idea of leaving the country much more seriously than I had before, but it still seems unlikely.
Trump said he’s going to use the military to round up immigrants on day one of his office. Better make sure you carry your papers on you so you don’t accidentally get swept up.
I don’t see why I would be in any more danger than a native-born American citizen.