Emily Tsitrian: Grant an emergency reprieve for H1-B visa holders laid off in the tech industry
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If Chicago doesn't act fast, it may lose an alarming amount of high-skilled talent, which could dampen our city's potential to drive tech innovation for years.It's no secret that Silicon Valley style firms heavily rely on the H-1B program to fill high-tech positions such as software engineering.During the boom time over the past three years, companies such as Meta, Amazon, Twitter, Salesforce, Stripe and Lyft (some with a Chicago presence) hired at least 45,000 workers nationally on such visas.
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