yes, most Americans don't realise just how many Indian people work building chips there - IIT and its ilk train more than 25% of the chip designers in the US (my rough guess from working in the industry) ... if Trump chases them all home and they go on to build great things, as I'm sure they will, Trump may be responsible for destroying the US semiconductor industry single handedly

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sure, except immigrants under work visas are not entitled to any welfare such as unemployment/medical - in fact we lose our status as legal immigrants as soon as we become unemployed so we must leave the country. Keep the hate flowing though.

I don't have any objections to a country looking out for its own interest, resisting illegal immigration or immigrants that otherwise cannot contribute much to the economy, but they are not the only ones the government is cracking down on.

> the recent wave of xenophobia worldwide

your welfare state is not the world model

e.g.

Germany Sees Welfare Benefit Costs More Than Double

Asylum seekers received nearly $5.91 billion in welfare benefits in 2015

https://www.wsj.com/articles/germanys-welfare-bill-rises-169...

and your assessment of employment rates among legal immigrants in Europe is simply not borne out by the statistics

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-economics/21709511-to...

If you read my comment, I was talking about restrictions on WORK visas in the US, not refugees in Europe.

Resisting immigration of a particular demographic, one that arguably contributes most to the coffers of the said welfare state, is well within epistemological domain of the word 'xenophobia'.

you're talking about the US

I'm responding to

> the recent wave of xenophobia worldwide

The costs of the refugee crisis

The German government will have to spend 50 billion euros on refugees during this year and next, a new study estimates. In order to balance these costs, researchers urge financial restraint elsewhere.

http://www.dw.com/en/the-costs-of-the-refugee-crisis/a-19016...