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by chu4n 3432 days ago
> I wouldn't bet against visas getting revoked and workers having to go home the next day or get deported.

As a software engineer on H1B (as is my fiancée) currently at Google, this scares the shit out of me.

I've lived my entire adult life in this country. I've got many amazing friends here, I've worked hard, built great products that I'm proud of, paid my taxes, and bought a home here with my fiancée. We're planning to get married and have a baby this year. This is our version of the American dream.

And all of that could be destroyed in an instant by an orange monster full of xenophobic rhetoric and wielding immense power. I'd trust a "normal" American president to not accidentally / maliciously destroy everything I've worked for over the past decade, but from the evidence this week, I'm scared. Really scared.