"The condition of H-1B, J, and L visa holders remains just as precarious. Once granted to highly skilled workers and intra-company transfers and researchers, their issuance has been entirely halted by the Trump administration. Those who have the visas and are in the country need not worry, they’ve been told. As for what happens when they need renewals, no one knows. It’s nail-biting anxiety, this habitation of American life while teetering on the cliffs of exclusion, but it has not caught the attention of any enterprising reality show creator. It could be for entirely tribal reasons; the crowd likes an American to root for and those who arrive at America’s gruff shores on their own merits make for less mesmerizing dramatics"