But given that you both feign concern over visa holders' working conditions [1], while at the same time advocating for policies that lead to worse working conditions [2], perhaps you just hate freedom and were never acting in good faith in the first place.
Now that they're facing consequences which we warned about (and prepped for as a result) they want to ignore it thinking that the monsters under the bed will go away.
Brain drain somewhere is brain gain elsewhere.
Imagine if you needed government approval to live with the one you love! What a completely unreasonable intervention into the private lives of ordinary people. Oh wait, that's the actual reality immigrants live in.
We lobbied where we needed to. Now we're bankrolling Trump's Venezuela [0] and "Drill Baby Drill" [1] policy and bankrolling Iowa [2] and Montana GOP's [3] agricultural exports. We also greenlit multiple Trump Towers projects [4][5][6][7].
This is how a trade war is fought.
Policymaking is always secondary to politics. That's why I left the policy space to climb the ladder in business.
[0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indias-reliance-talk...
[1] - https://www.livemint.com/companies/ongc-exxonmobil-collabora...
[2] - https://governor.iowa.gov/press-release/2025-09-16/gov-reyno...
[3] - https://www.daines.senate.gov/2026/01/20/daines-travels-to-i...
[4] - https://www.trump.com/residential-real-estate-portfolio/trum...
[5] - https://www.trump.com/residential-real-estate-portfolio/trum...
[6] - https://www.trump.com/residential-real-estate-portfolio/trum...
[7] - https://www.trump.com/residential-real-estate-portfolio/trum...
And I feel pointing out how a commonly repeated trope in our industry is backfiring is important.
Alternatively, you can bury your heads into the deeper and deeper hole that is being dug.