Throughout his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump often claimed that his efforts against immigration were primarily against irregular or illegal immigration, and that he was happy to have people go through “proper channels.” Those assurances got weaker as he moved into his first term, but he still made at least rhetorical overtures to legal immigration – he had to appease a business community that was still skeptical of his then-new political movement.
Now, Trump and anti-immigration ideologues like Stephen Miller have succeeded at targeting the pipeline of international students and foreign workers on visas like the H-1B. They’ve cra …