On March 29, 2018, the San Jose Mercury News published a story titled "H-1B: Silicon Valley doesn’t get majority of controversial visas, report says" . It begins: The controversial H-1B work visa used heavily by Silicon Valley tech firms to acquire talent is much more widely used by companies based in New York and Texas, according to new research. From 2010 to 2016, almost a third of the visas, which are intended for workers in jobs requiring specialized knowledge and a bachelor’s degree or higher, went to businesses in the New York City area, the Pew Research Center reported Thursday . The referenced Pew Research Center Study is titled "East Coast and Texas metros had the most H-1B visas for skilled workers from 2010 to 2016" and begins as follows: The employment of high-skilled foreign workers with H-1B visas centered in large East Coast metropolitan areas from fiscal years 2010 to 2016. These foreign workers
