Uncertainty over Trump's immigration policy leads foreign engineers to ditch startups

While on the campaign trail, Donald Trump made it clear that he wanted to deport illegal immigrants. His stance on high-skilled immigration, on the other hand, was more opaque. The H-1B visa is the most common pathway for high-skilled foreigners to work in the US. Trump called it "very, very bad for workers" on the campaign trail and, after being elected, pledged to investigate visa programs that were abused. However, he also admitted that he's hired H-1B workers for his own businesses.

Uncertainty over what will happen under Trump has some foreign engineers thinking twice about working for a startup.