H1-B Visa Holders -- or Hopefuls

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Photographed by Deanne Fitzmaurice and text by Katie Benner, Tech Workers Left in Limbo. New York Times, Apr 20, 2017 (in the "Business" section).
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/ ... ch-worker-life.html

Quote:

"One in eight tech workers has an H-1B visa, according to estimates from Goldman Sachs.  H-1B visa holders account for about 15 percent of the American work forces at Facebook and Qualcomm, according to the most recent documents the companies have filed with the Labor Department. Silicon Valley start-ups, which often drive tech innovation, employ many engineers on student and work visas, as do tech giants like Google and Apple.

"Joshua Reeves, the chief executive and founder of Gusto[, 'a company that provides human resources services to small businesses'], agreed, noting that 8 percent of his work force is on a visa or green card. Gusto's hiring policy has never taken a candidate's citizenship into account, and Mr Reeves said the company was 'committed to sticking to that mind-set.'

My comment:
(a)
(i) I read the report in print first, and thought the tech workers were left in limbo by immigration law, or more specifically, fickleness of a lottery for H-1B visas. When I write this posting, I learn its online title: "Meet the Foreign Tech Workers Left in Limbo by Trump."
(ii) The print version is about half as short (in terms of both photographs and text) as the online one, which alone has the bar chart with the heading: Most H-1B Workers Come From India [69% of visas issued in 2015] and China [12%]."

(b) Deanne Fitzmaurice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deanne_Fitzmaurice
(was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2005)

She was born in 1957.
(c) gusto (n; Italian, from Latin [noun masculine] gustus taste): "enjoyment and enthusiasm in doing something"
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gusto