Trump's NAFTA Stance Could Cut Access To High-Skill Labor

From Texas Public Radio:

President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t like NAFTA. “If they don’t agree to a renegotiation, and they might not, then I will submit that America intends to withdraw from the deal,” he said at a campaign stop.

NAFTA creates more than a half billion dollars in trade each year among Canada, Mexico and the United States. And it provides a way for highly-skilled workers from neighboring countries to come and work in the U.S.

It’s called the TN visa, and according to the State Department, the number of people using it quadrupled over the past five years. Last year, 20,000 workers and their dependents legally entered the U.S. with a TN visa.

Many of those workers went to tech jobs.

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