Michael Clemens

Goodbye to one of the greats, my advisor Jeff Williamson (1935–2026)
Jeff your unstoppable intellect & excitement were contagious. I owe everything I have to your rare faith in me.
From the many like me: Our deepest and forever thanks. Your work & your self will be remembered.

The owner of this network calls for murdering immigrants.

The ongoing control of this once-great network by such a filthy, poisonous supremacist makes my stomach churn and it is the reason that many of us who built this network have stayed away.

Countless people will report the new H-1B tax as a “fee”.

It is not. That word is used by advocates of the tax trying to avoid legal jeopardy for agencies with no authority to tax.

Like the new OPT tax, it is a tax. I clarify in part of my new paper —>

The new H-1B tax gets announced tomorrow.

The original $100K tax was ruled illegal. The White House made its successor: a $103K tax on *all* private sector H-1Bs.

Much more drastic than the original: NO EXCEPTION for people already in the US (like grads of US universities) —>