We're about to lose a lot of foreign STEM workers

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  NPR. This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong, and I'm joined by Darian Woods, freshly back from his honeymoon.

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  Congratulations.

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  Hello.

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  Hi. Thank you.

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  How was your trip?

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  It was mixed, so most notably...

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  I was on the beach with my now wife and she gets a text message from her boss and it's saying,

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  are you in the country?

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  Oh my gosh.

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  And we're like, what happened?

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  And so we look at the news and Donald Trump has announced that there is this huge $100,000 fee for new engines into the country for people with H1B visas.

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  My wife is on an H1B visa.

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  Oh my gosh.

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  This was such a huge news story last week and you were living it.

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  I could not escape the news.

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  It was very frustrating, just as you're trying to unwind.

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  And so we take this very panicked,

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  tearful trip to the Barcelona airport and we're reconsidering like,

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  you know, what country do we live in?

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