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U.S. foreign tech workers brace for Trump turmoil and little help from Musk

Visa uncertainty hangs over staff from abroad in huge technology sector

PALO ALTO, California -- It has been an unexpectedly hectic holiday travel season for Victoria Chen, who has been preparing for what could possibly be her last trip outside the U.S. for the next four years.

Chen, a 31-year-old software engineer at one of the country's biggest tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, was originally planning to visit her family in China for the Lunar New Year in late January. But the day after Donald Trump was projected to have won reelection as U.S. president in November, she rescheduled her entire trip.

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