This is actually a good step. Eliminate cost arbitrage as motive for hiring foreign workers. Hire to fill genuine gaps in the labor pool. I don't see any downside and I'm an Indian in the US.
I applied for few good colleges (UCSD, UT Austin, Carnige Mellon, GATech, Arizona state) to specialize in Machine Learning in US.
Should I change my plans (I have to spend anywhere from 40-90 lakh RS to get MS in these colleges), is 130,000 $ too high for guy with my profile to work in a good product based or research oriented companies in US after graduating?
Why don't you get MS from good universities in Canada and enter the express entry immigration system which values your skills unlike H1B system which depends on luck ?
Trump just now barred from entry (effectively deported) all visa holders (including H1-Bs) from 7 Muslim countries who happened to be outside the US for vacation when his Executive Order hit. He also tried to do the same to green card holders (but the courts stood up to him so he backpedaled).
I am at a point where I can pick up new languages/frameworks in a breeze (Yet to learn how to do non trivial functional programming though).
Yeah I know key is depth, but I am interested in too many things :(.But industrial application of AI is my final goal, that is why I applied for MS in machine learning.
In the long run I think ML will explode, whereas strictly web technologies is either a race to the bottom that's highly competitive, or a never ending hamster wheel where you're chasing the latest framework.