President Donald Trump’s decision to slap US employers with $100,000 per H-1B visa will take a large section of the Indian techie workforce out of the US. But when the real effects of his brinkmanship kick in, he may have to look beyond Indian engineers to calculate the flight dynamics of a boomerang.

It will gladden Trump’s MAGA base, but it will do the US more harm than good. It will hurt America’s famed economic competitiveness, stifle innovation, and undermine its status as the foremost hub for global talent.

It would make it prohibitively costly for companies — particularly startups and small businesses — to hire the best foreign talent. They will be forced to look elsewhere to fill top positions as talent will drain out to countries with warmer immigration policies. Critical and emerging fields like artificial intelligence and quantum computing will suffer the........

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