Trump's softened stance on visas alarms some immigration critics

Many technology workers were baffled by Mr. Trump’s debate reversal.

“The generous view is that he might not fully understand the alphabet soup of visas,” said John Miano, a lawyer who founded the Programmers Guild, a tech worker organization, and recently was an author with Michelle Malkin, a conservative commentator, of a book on high-skilled immigration.

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“The worst case is that this is what he really believes,” Mr. Miano said.

In fact, Mr. Trump expressed the same views in October: In a debate on CNBC, he contradicted a moderator, Becky Quick, who noted that Mr. Trump had been critical of Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder, who created an organization to lobby for more high-skilled visas.

As Ms. Quick pointed out, Mr. Trump’s own campaign website had described his rival, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, as “Mr. Zuckerberg’s personal senator.” (The Trump website also said that Mr. Rubio’s proposal to increase the number of H-1Bs would “decimate women and minorities.”)

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