SAN FRANCISCO, United States -Laid off US tech workers from abroad on employment-based visas are scrambling to find new jobs to avoid being forced to uproot their lives and leave the country. More than 150,000 US-based tech jobs have disappeared in recent months, delivering an economic blow to Silicon Valley not seen the since the dot-com bubble collapsed in the early 2000s. Often times, immigrant tech workers have settled down and started families in the United States, advocates told AFP. ‘Brain drain’The US economy stands to suffer if there is an exodus of immigrant tech talent, argue advocates. Tech talent forced to leave the US, taking their families and dreams with them, will settle elsewhere and likely not return, Kand argued.
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